Port called the barbacan, Plymouth Castle and the speedwell. A ship that was set to sail with the mayflower to america buts but deemed unsea worthy and returned to sport. 1620 has been about trying to use virtual reality to bring a part of england, plymouth, in the southwest of the country, back to life, so that the people who lived there and people who experience it, experienced what it was like for pilgrims in their mammoth journey across the atlantic in 1620. What it was like for them. What was the last thing they saw before they got on this leaky, creaky ship and made their way out to the atlantic all those centuries ago . Were going to jump right in and take a look at some of those 360s. Where we are here at the moment is near newkey. If you move to the right slightly, you can just about make out the mast of the speedwell. We thought wed leave the speedwell, looking very sorry for herself, listing to port in the harbor where there was a lot of Shipwork And Ship repairs going on. T
Mayflower two is behind me, a full Scale Reproduction of the ship that brought the pilgrims to new england in 1620. A writer by the name of albert matthews, gives them the name of pilgrim fathers, which still in the United Kingdom today, theyre called their pilgrim fathers. We as americans tend to call them pilgrims. And the reason that it is sited is that William Bradford, in his chronicle and also in his poetry refers to them as pilgrims not a per case, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on attorney for religious regions. Went on attorney 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 do people sound in colonial new england . A Board Mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymo
Recreation of plymouth as it looks seven years after mayflower landed. When our guests enter the historic site, the encounter living history educators who are portraying men and women who lived in plymouth in 1627. We know the name of every man, Woman And Child who was here because this is the last that they lived with in the town in 1620, we started spreading up and have been down to divide all of the common assets equitably, they needed a complete list of residents. Every person that our guests encounter, once actually walked on the face of the earth. No one fictional, no one composite. When you come to a living museum you enter into unable to encounter the spiritual beliefs or the, past the technology of the past, the experiments in Self Governance of the past in three dimensions. And one of the things that we strive to do is hold the people of the past in our hands very gently and with compassion, so that we can enter into their Story And Experience it in 360 degrees. That said, th
story of the pilgrim s crossing in 1620 and the origins of the mayflower compact. will also tour mayflower too a reproduction of the original ship to see what life was like on board. i am richard pickering deputy executive director of plymouth patuxent museums, and we are at state pier in plymouth, massachusetts. mayflower 2 is behind me a full-scale reproduction of the ship that brought the pilgrims to new england in 1620 a writer by the name of albert. matthews gives them the name of pilgrim fathers which still in the united kingdom today. they re called the pilgrim fathers. we as americans tend to call them pilgrims. and the reason the word is cited. is that william bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry. refers 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 remem
comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. next we ll tour the mayflower ii to see what life was like on board. i am richard pickering, deputy executive director of plymouth tucker museums and we are at state pier in plymouth, massachusetts. mayflower ii is behind us. a writer by the name of robert matthews gives them the name of pilgrim fathers which still, in the united kingdom today are called pilgrim fathers. we in america tend to call them pilgrims. the reason they are cited is they are referred to as pilgrims in poetry. people who went on a journey for religious reasons went on a journey for personal sdoefr. and so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a pilgrim identity. but we all need to remember that they themselves did not have a group identity. they were a very heterogenuous group that had to learn how to live together. aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there was upwards of 17 different dialect regions repre