Tour Highlights

Spend Thanksgiving in America’s Hometown — Plymouth Massachusetts!

“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together. And… by the goodness of God we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.” —Edward Winslow, 1621

hanksgiving is America’s holiday and Plymouth is the symbol of where our national celebration began. Enjoy the company of your family and friends, as we enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the New England trimmings among Pilgrim role players and Native interpreters at Plimoth Plantation, the 17th-Century English Village re-creation of the small farming and maritime community built by the Pilgrims.

Two Thanksgiving Feasts!

We will enjoy a “private” Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday evening at the hotel. It will be just our group so we will have the freedom to sing, pray, and bring testimony to the Lord’s work in our lives throughout the evening. On Friday, we will go to Plimouth Plantation and enjoy a morning walking through the village amongst the Pilgrim reenactors, visiting the museum and craft demonstration area before enjoying another Thanksgiving Feast at the Plantation among the general public and Pilgrims at the Plantation at 1pm.

The English Village brings colonial Plymouth vividly to life. Here you will find modest timber-framed houses furnished with reproductions of the types of objects that the Pilgrims owned, aromatic kitchen gardens, and heritage breeds of livestock. Engaging townspeople are eager to tell you about their new lives in Plymouth Colony. The people you meet are costumed role players portraying actual residents of Plymouth Colony. They have adopted the names, viewpoints and life histories of the people who lived and worked in the Colony in 1627. Each has a unique story to tell.

In addition to a very special Thanksgiving day with the Pilgrims at Plimoth Plantation, we will be exploring the solid oak timbers and tarred hemp rigging of the full-scale reproduction of the tiny vessel that bore 102 souls across the sea on a 66-day voyage. . . the Mayflower. We will also tour the Jenney Gristmill, originally constructed in 1636 on Town Brook and fully operational today.

Plymouth Town Tours

Learn about the people, places and events of the beginning of our country as you walk along Town Brook on the same paths our forefathers walked centuries ago. Visit the grave sites of our ancestors and become acquainted with the thoughts of these remarkable people. Discover why the Pilgrims changed from communal living to land ownership, and how this change led to the beginning of free trade, industry and capitalism in our country. Hear about the relationship between the Pilgrims and Natives and how they worked together in support of each other. Stops include Burial Hill, Plymouth Mother’s Monument, Plymouth Rock, the National Monument to the Forefathers, Brewster Gardens and much more!

Special Evening Lectures in a Very Historic House

Through God’s kind providence and the generosity of our friends at The Leyden Group, we have been given access to a beautiful and historic home on the oldest residential street in America! Built on the site where the first Common House was erected by the Pilgrims and where they signed the remarkable treaty with the Wampanoag Indians in 1621, #33 Leyden Street will serve as our venue for various activities throughout the tour.

Boston

We will begin our adventure in Boston, where we will spend a day on The Freedom Trail, visiting ancient burial grounds at The Granary, Kings Chapel and Copp’s Hill, along with historic patriot gathering places like Faneuil Hall, Old North Church and Old South Meeting House telling the stories of the liberty, conspiracy and victory that forged our nation’s independence. We will walk the battlefield at Lexington — site of the “shot heard ‘round the world” and charge over the famous bridge at Concord, where the first military engagements of the war for Independence were fought.

You’ll return from your trip with a renewed sense of gratitude and respect for these true founding fathers who sacrificed all they had to forge the liberty we now enjoy.

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Suggested Reading

Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford

John Winthrop, by Francis J. Bremer

The Puritan Experiment, by Francis J. Bremer

The Puritan Family, by Edmund Morgan

The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728, by Robert Middlekauff

Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were, by Leland Ranken

The Guise of Every Graceless Heart, by Terrill Elniff

The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert A. Gross

Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill, by Thomas J. Fleming

Paul Revere’s Ride, by David Hackett Fischer

The Boston Campaign, by Victor Brooks

Driven to Resistance, Vol. 1, by R.A. Sheats