Hear from thell Plimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told and about the origins of the mayflower compact. I Plimoth Patuxet deputy am executive director Richard Pickering. Themter by the name gives the name pilgrim fathers. They are still called this today. We as americans tend to call them pilgrims. The reason that this is cited is because William Bradford refers to them as pilgrims. Pilgrims,p but lowercase. We need to remember that they did not have a group identity. They were a heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how do people sound in colonial england. The first few ships that will follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plaintiff they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely did you hear anybody speak english other than your own dialect or accent. Begine what it is like to aboard a ship we are trying to figure out what is she saying to be echo we are accustomed to watching tel
Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because
History. In 1620, the mayflower traveled from plymouth, england, to america. And the pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony on the coast of massachusetts. We talked to robert stone about the virtual mayflower project, which uses Virtual Reality to recreate the ship and harbor from which it set sail, using avatars and 360degree images of the Virtual World, professor stone describes what life might have been like for the pilgrims and crew. Some historic features we will see in the virtual rendering are the 17thcentury report called the barbie can century port called the barbican, plymouth castle, and a ship that was set to sail with the mayflower to america but was deemed on seaworthy and returned to port. Prof. Stone virtual 1620 has been a labor of love, to use virtual to bring a part of , plymouth, in the west of the country, back to life. So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing
Religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. So that use of the word pilgrims gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth that plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard a ship with people, you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Accustomed to are watching television to get our news, to have a newscasters accent. We are accustomed to hearing people speak differently than ourselves. Wasnt always the case back in the 1600s. There are Vocabulary Words and
So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing they saw before they got on this leaky, creaky ship . And made their way out into the treacherous atlantic, centuries ago . We are going to jump in and take a look at some of those 360s. Prof. Stone where we arent the moment, it is known as the smart key. If you move to the right you can make out the speedwell. We will leave it looking sorry for herself leaving part in the harbor, where there were ship repairs going on. The structure you are seeing now where these fine people having a chat, this is reminiscent of an old fish market, so a lot of the fish would be brought and filletted, that would be done here. Ships would be moored and delivering their fish to those who would box it up and put onto wagons or taken directly to stores outside the buildings behind us. We have tried to make it look much clearer. You can see that it is quite di