Pilgrims

     Mayflower descendants keep their eyes open for bits of information that reveal the lives of Pilgrim and Native people of the 1600s. That’s what happened to me when I came across a flower and its ties to Leiden,…

What do we really know about the English who came to the New World in 1620? What was it about the religious climate that propelled the Pilgrims to leave England? Was the Mayflower Compact significant – or not? Did Pilgrims…