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On the verge of winter and starvation, under the leadership of CPT. Miles Standish, the scouting party uncovered and stole a cache of buried corn.

Camp amidst the redwoods along a lazy river at the Standish-Hickey Campground in a tent, trailer, or RV.

In the 1900s, Rose Standish Nichols, one of Boston's prominent residents ,distinguished herself as a business woman, an author, and an advocate for Women's Rights.

Martha's Vineyard is located seven miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts and named for Bartholomew Gosnold's daughter and for the grapes that grow on the island.

A look into the life and legend of the native American who joined the grateful Pilgrims in their first thanksgiving feast celebrated n the New World.

The following article gives a brief look at the area and wineries which are recommended for anyone with a passion for finding seriously interesting wine.

Biography of American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, famous for The Song of Hiawatha and The Courtship of Miles Standish.

On September 6, 1620, more than 100 passengers set sail for America aboard the Mayflower. Beginning here is a list of those people.

The Mayflower Compact is written, then signed on November 11, 1620.

Falmouth Soldiers sailed hundreds of miles to do battle at Louisbourg, were gone 16 months and successfully petitioned for land as compensation.

Once the technique of layering is mastered, it's simple to create impressively fancy cocktails like these.

Resources for tracing Plymouth Colony ancestors are plentiful. That is because the Mayflower pilgrims are part of this much larger collection of ancestors.

Thanksgiving Day has a whole new meaning once the true story of the pilgrims' settlement along Cape Cod comes into light with Philbrick's new book for early teen readers.

There, in the crowded cabin of the tiny ship Mayflower, while women and children watched, 41 men signed the historic Mayflower Compact, a model of self-government.

Despite its relatively brief history of 70 years as an independent colony, Plymouth has assumed a significant role in American folklore, mostly due to Thanksgiving.

Former Great Britain half-back Paul Deacon has ended his 11-year stint with Bradford Bulls to pen a three-year contract with his home-town club Wigan Warriors.

The Mayflower was followed by the Fortune, making the Little James and Anne third and fourth arrivals. Passengers included wives and children of men already at Plymouth.

The Emerald Forest is a private-owned campground in Trinidad California. Its 12 acre location is open year round but it will break your wallet and spirit. Learn why here.

The Cornucopia is best known as a Thanksgiving centerpiece. Straw, ceramic and edible ones are filled with fruits, nuts and vegetables or treats made in their shapes.

Thomas Weston, a discontented Mayflower Company backer, founded Weymouth, MA, a failed venture meant to show the Pilgrims how to achieve commercial success.

The proximity of Lynn, MA to Boston drew to it a large number of the earliest immigrants. Many of these families moved on as other New England towns were founded.

Mary Chilton, perhaps the first pilgrim to step ashore, arrived as a young teen whose parents soon died. She was taken in by other pilgrims and later married a Winslow.

Pilgrims and Wampanoagans celebrated the first Thanksgiving. The tribe had its own feast day. Future Pagan immigrants brought their harvest festivals to America.

Pope Gregory VII helped bring Christianity to the forefront of everyday life during the Middle Ages. He stopped the practice of Lay Investiture, and curbed rulers power.

Pilgrims and Wampanoagan AmerIndians dined on the first "Turkey Day" meal. Can Pagans add their traditions and foods for the festivities? Yes. Suggestions and recipes....

Millions of people are descended from the Pilgrims who arrived in the new world on the Mayflower.

The first Weymouth, Massachusetts settlers, facing starvation, Indian attacks and no leadership from colony founder Thomas Weston, scattered up and down the seaboard.

Tens of millions of people can legitimately claim ancestors who came on the Mayflower and they are by no means all elite blue-bloods.

Were they pilgrims or just people trying to make a better life for themselves and their children. Whoever they were they an integral part of American History.

Want some insight into the dynamics of human relationships? Oddly, you don't have to look very far.