Happy First Day of Fall from Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, We woke to a howling, cold North Wind: a gift from Hurricane Igor. So, it was a perfect day for returning to Plymouth and a visit to Pilgrim Hall. I appreciated the effort that Pilgrim Hall has put into correcting the stereotypes started by Longfellow and perpetuated through the Colonialist Revival era of a white-washed history palpable to the white middle class of the 1950's. Pilgrim Hall is the oldest standing museum in the US and houses the few remaining personal belongings that the Separatists brought with them to what they hoped would be Virginia. They didn't quite make it south and settled on Plymouth as they became ship-weary, illness spread, and under the urging of the captain of the Mayflower. Captain Christopher Jones is, in
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