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Aldens' Progress
The Alden House Historic Site, P. O. Box 2754, Duxbury, Massachusetts 02331 Aldens’ Progress News of the Alden Kindred of America, Inc. Spring 2009 SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES Tom McCarthy, Historian of the Alden Kindred of America must be the very best site associated with a person, event, or development of national (as opposed to local) historic significance. For the Alden House the designation means a “promotion” from the ranks of the more than 80,000 sites on the National Register of Historic Places, where it has been listed since 1978. But the Original Alden Homestead Site had not even The Alden House been listed on the Register. The National Park Historic Site Service runs the programs that confer both 2009 Calendar historical designations under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. W Museum opens: May 18 In addition to recognizing that no other historic Speak for Thyself: June 20 site was so prominently associated with Mayflower passengers, the National Historic Duxbury Free Day: July 11 fter lunch at our annual reunion on August Landmarks subcommittee of the National Park Annual Meeting & A 1, 2009 the Alden Kindred and the Town System Advisory Board endorsed four specific National Historic of Duxbury will accept plaques from the National claims to historical significance. First, the national Landmark Award: August 1 Park Service designating the Alden House and cultural impact of Alden descendant Henry Alden Open: September 26 Original Alden Homestead Site as the John and Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1858 poem The Priscilla Alden Family Sites National Historic Courtship of Miles Standish made the surviving Museum closes: October 12 Landmark. -
Plymouth Guide for Students and Chaperones
Plymouth Guide for Students and Chaperones Emergency Teacher Contact: Name:______________________________________ Number:____________________________________ Student List: _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ General Rules: ● Stay with your chaperone at all times (ie. chaperones wait outside/near bathroom if a group member needs to go) ● Show courtesy, consideration, and respect to all (chaperons and classmates, as well as residents of Plymouth) ● Take in all the learning around you: Look, listen, and enjoy this unique learning experience. ● Appropriate language, regular voices and walking at all times. ● No food of any kind, unless it is a designated snack time or lunchtime (this includes eating on the buses). ● Absolutely NO electronics at any time during the field trip. (Chaperones/teachers are not responsible for Items lost or stolen) Plimoth Plantation: *In addition to the above rules* ● The adult chaperone always enters the building first. You will wait by the door, until the adult has entered. ● Treat the animals with respect: Do not touch, tease, chase, or feed animals. ● Use your best manners at all times. ● Respect the environment. Downtown Plymouth the walking tour: ● Students should walk two by two with their chaperon in the lead. The sidewalks are narrow and we will be crossing busy intersections. Students are to remain WITH chaperons at all times. You may -
Samuel De Champlain April 1882 Information About Samuel De
For Educational Use Only www.MaineMemory.net Copyright 2018 Samuel de Champlain April 1882 A.A. Waterman, Cambridge Information about Samuel de Champlain Compiled/Written 1882 Contributed to Maine Memory Network by Mount Desert Island Historical Society MMN # 102778 Date: 1882 Description: Champlain Society log, Information about Samuel de Champlain, Cambridge References are to Otis’s translation. Prince Society’s Edition of Champlain’s works. Read by C.E. to Champlain Society, May 19, 1882 Samuel de Champlain On Christmas day 1635, [about a year before the foundation of Harvard College,] Samuel de Champlain, sol dier, explorer and first Governor of New France, died in the fort of Que- bec. The trading post which he had established twenty-three years before had become a mission house, and a black-robed Jesuit pronounced his funeral discourse. Champlain was born in a sea-coast town near La Rochelle about 1567, - in the middle of the religious wars. At the age of twenty-five, he was made quarter master in the army of Henry IV, and he served with distinction in Brittany until the close of the war against the League. The soldier’s life, however, was not his choice. In a letter addressed to the Queen Regent he says of the art of navigation, “This is the art which from my earliest years has won my love and induced me to expose myself all my life to the impetuous waves of the ocean.” An irresistible love of ad- venture and discovery was one of his most striking characteristics. It was this that led him to conceive the wild scheme of a voyage to the Spanish West Indies and Mexico, at a time when all but Spaniards were excluded from those countries. -
Northern Tier Strategic Initiatives
Northern Tier Strategic Investment Initiatives FINAL REPORT October 21, 2004 Prepared by: Mt. Auburn Associates, Inc. and Karl Seidman Deanna Ruffer John Hoops and Fredia Woolf TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................III THE CREATIVE CLUSTER .......................................................................................... 1 ECOTOURISM SECTOR ............................................................................................. 22 ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT.................................................................. 38 HEALTHCARE SECTOR............................................................................................. 51 MANUFACTURING SECTOR .................................................................................... 64 RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR............................................................................. 78 ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Context The Northern Tier Project was created to accomplish two critically important goals for communities, businesses, and residents in the region: 1. Develop new economic engines and sectors that will lead to a stronger and more dynamic regional economic base. 2. Establish a skills and training system that will help the region’s low-income and working class residents gain access to well-paying jobs. In this context, a considerable amount of economic and -
Birds of Mount Greylock Mount Greylock State Reservation INFORMATION GUIDE & SIGHTING LIST
Birds of Mount Greylock Mount Greylock State Reservation INFORMATION GUIDE & SIGHTING LIST Birds of Mount Greylock is a two-part document. Part 1 is a basic overview of the variety of bird species found in and around Mount Greylock, where you might encounter them in the Reservation. Part 2 is a birding checklist for your records. Part 1 Managed by the Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR), Mount Greylock State Reservation covers over 12,500 acres of upland habitat. The summit at 3,491 feet above sea level is the highest point in Massachusetts and supports the only sub-alpine ecosystem in the state; one of the southernmost extensions of the boreal or spruce-fir forest, normally associated with Canada. Why go birding? If you want a challenge, camaraderie, fun, passion, beauty, insight, travel, and discovery, go birding. All this aside, humans have certainly altered face of the landscape, sometimes negatively impacting bird habitats. Bird populations, over time, have responded by shifting to more suitable habitats or disappearing altogether from certain areas. Still other species have been either hunted to extinction, their distinctive habitats completely destroyed, affected by pesticides or pollution, or even displaced by competing bird species. There is a widely held belief within the bird watching community is that an interest in birds is often the first step toward building a sound conservation ethic. Birds are sensitive indicators of the health of the environment. It is likely that a popular widespread commitment to their well- being will lead to a greater concern for the quality of the environment on which humans and birds are mutually dependent. -
The Mapping of Samuel De Champlain, 1603–1635 Conrad E
51 • The Mapping of Samuel de Champlain, 1603–1635 Conrad E. Heidenreich The cartography of Samuel de Champlain marks the be- roster of 1595 he was listed as a fourier (sergeant) and aide ginning of the detailed mapping of the Atlantic coast north to the maréchal de logis (quartermaster), apparently of Nantucket Sound, into the St. Lawrence River valley, reaching the rank of maréchal himself.4 The same pay ros- and, in a more cursory fashion, to the eastern Great Lakes. ter states that in 1595 he went on a secret mission for the Previous maps were based on rapid ship-board reconnais- king that was regarded to be of some importance. He also sance surveys made in the early to middle sixteenth cen- made a “special report” to Henri IV after his West Indian tury, particularly on the expeditions of Jacques Cartier and voyage (1601) and after the first two voyages to Canada Jean-François de La Rocque, sieur de Roberval (1534 – (1603 and 1607). These reports seem to indicate that 43). These maps conveyed little more than the presence of Champlain had a personal relationship with Henri IV, a stylized coastline. The immediate result of the Cartier- probably accounting for the pension the king awarded him Roberval expeditions was that France lost interest in sometime before 1603.5 After the war, Champlain joined North America, except for fishing off the northeast coast. his uncle’s ship, the 500-tun Saint-Julien, in Spanish The indigenous population was considered impoverished Caribbean service.6 In June 1601, Champlain was in and hostile, there were no quick riches, and the winters Cádiz where he was a witness to his dying uncle’s testa- were so brutal that the French wondered whether Euro- ment leaving him a large estate near La Rochelle as well as peans could live there. -
7.0 Wildlife and Fisheries Overview
Redington Wind Farm Redington Pond Range, Maine Section 7: Wildlife and Fisheries Prepared by Woodlot Alternatives, Inc. Topsham, Maine Redington Wind Farm Page i Section 7 – Wildlife and Fisheries Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction............................................................................................................. 1 2.0 Ecological Setting of Project area........................................................................... 3 3.0 Natural Communities and Wetlands ....................................................................... 5 3.1 Methods................................................................................................................ 5 3.2 Natural Community Descriptions ........................................................................ 7 3.2.1 Terrestrial Communities ................................................................................ 8 3.2.2 Beech-Birch-Maple Forest............................................................................. 9 3.2.3 Spruce-Northern Hardwood Forest.............................................................. 10 3.2.4 Spruce-Fir-Mountain Sorrel-Feathermoss Forest ........................................ 11 3.2.5 Fir-Heartleaved Birch Subalpine Forest ...................................................... 11 3.2.6 Regenerating Forest Stands.......................................................................... 14 3.2.7 Wetlands and Streams.................................................................................. 16 4.0 Fish -
Destination Plymouth
DESTINATION PLYMOUTH Approximately 40 miles from park, travel time 50 minutes: Turn left when leaving Normandy Farms onto West Street. You will cross the town line and West Street becomes Thurston Street. At 1.3 miles from exiting park, you will reach Washington Street / US‐1 South. Turn left onto US‐1 South. Continue for 1.3 miles and turn onto I‐495 South toward Cape Cod. Drive approximately 22 miles to US‐44 E (exit 15) toward Middleboro / Plymouth. Bear right off ramp to US‐44E, in less than ¼ mile you will enter a rotary, take the third exit onto US‐ 44E towards Plymouth. Continue for approximately 14.5 miles. Merge onto US‐44E / RT‐3 South toward Plymouth/Cape Cod for just a little over a mile. Merge onto US‐44E / Samoset St via exit 6A toward Plymouth Center. Exit right off ramp onto US‐ 44E / Samoset St, which ends at Route 3A. At light you will see “Welcome to Historic Plymouth” sign, go straight. US‐44E / Samoset Street becomes North Park Ave. At rotary, take the first exit onto Water Street; the Visitor Center will be on your right with the parking lot behind the building. For GPS purposes the mapping address of the Plymouth Visitor Center – 130 Water Street, Plymouth, MA 02360 Leaving Plymouth: Exit left out of lot, then travel around rotary on South Park Ave, staying straight onto North Park Ave. Go straight thru intersection onto Samoset Street (also known as US‐44W). At the next light, turn right onto US‐44W/RT 3 for about ½ miles to X7 – sign reads “44W Taunton / Providence, RI”. -
The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley Volume 19, Number 4, February 2015
1 Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley, vol 19, no 4 february 2015 ISSN 1206-4394 The heriTage gazeTTe of The TrenT Valley Volume 19, number 4, february 2015 President’s Corner: ….…………………………….…….…………..…………………..……… Guy Thompson 2 Samuel de Champlain and the Portage Road in 1615 …………………………………………… R. B. Fleming 3 Samuel de Champlain and the Portage Road in 1615, footnotes ………………………………… R. B. Fleming 43 Lieutenant Harold S. Matthews: Reflections on a family photo album …………………….… Elwood H. Jones 7 Mabel Nichols’ Science Note Book ……………………………………………..………………….. John Marsh 11 Thomas Morrow in World War I: Part 3 …………………………………………… Memoirs, Thomas Morrow 14 Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Memorial 1913 ………………………………………… Ivy Sucee and John Sayers 27 John Boyko and How Canada Fought the American Civil War ……………………………... Michael Peterman 30 World War I Nursing Sisters: Old Durham County ………………………...………………… Elwood H. Jones 32 Queries …………………………………………….………………… Heather Aiton Landry and Elwood Jones 33 Old Stone House, Hunter and Rubidge, 31; Peterborough’s Earliest Photographer? 33; PCVS Class 9-1 1943-44; A New Pulpit at St. John’s Anglican Church Peterborough 34; Wall Street or Bust (with Dianne Tedford) 35; Peter Lemoire, 36; The Market Hall 1913 37; P. G. Towns and the “Canadian Grocer”, 38; Trent Valley Archives Even new buildings are haunted: Trent Valley Archives downtown ghost walk October 2014 ( Jessica Nyznik) 36; Around Trent Valley Archives 31; Events 2015 29 Coming Events There and Back Again: Searching for Peterborough’s Irish Roots, February 17 …..…. Ruth Kuchinad 37 Workshop on Upper Canada & Canada West Research …………………………………..OGS Toronto 38 Books Entangled Roots, Bev Lundahl …………………..……………….. Keith Foster 39 and inside back cover Cornelius Crowley of Otonabee and His Descendants, Colum Diamond ………………………………. -
Thanksgiving Trivia Questions and Answers From: Conversationstartersworld.Com/Thanksgiving-Trivia-Questions
Thanksgiving trivia questions and answers From: conversationstartersworld.com/thanksgiving-trivia-questions There are many countries and cultures that have a Thanksgiving holiday or celebrations based around giving thanks. But this set of trivia questions will focus mostly on Thanksgiving in the United States. Although there is a section at the end for trivia about Thanksgiving celebrations around the world. History of Thanksgiving in the USA What year was the celebration that is most commonly attributed as the first Thanksgiving? 1621 This is the celebration that people most often talk about when they are talking about the “first” Thanksgiving. But there are others that are claimed to be the first Thanksgiving. There was another celebration in Plymouth in 1623 and one in Boston in 1631 that people claim was the actual first Thanksgiving. In reality there were lots of Thanksgiving celebrations in North America before 1621 as well because days of Thanksgiving were often celebrated after good events that were deemed to have the hand of God behind them. How long did the first Thanksgiving celebration last? 3 Days It was celebrated much earlier than our current celebration, possibly in late September. There were about 50 European settlers and around 90 native Americans who attended the 3-day feast. When the religious group that would later be known as the Pilgrims left England to practice their religion freely, where did they go? Leiden, Holland Unlike the Puritans, the Pilgrims believed that they couldn’t practice their religion within the English state church. This led to fines and sometimes imprisonment. To escape persecution, they fled to Leiden, Holland. -
Massasoit of The
OUSAMEQUIN “YELLOW FEATHER” — THE MASSASOIT OF THE 1 WAMPANOAG (THOSE OF THE DAWN) “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY 1. Massasoit is not a personal name but a title, translating roughly as “The Shahanshah.” Like most native American men of the period, he had a number of personal names. Among these were Ousamequin or “Yellow Feather,” and Wasamegin. He was not only the sachem of the Pokanoket of the Mount Hope peninsula of Narragansett Bay, now Bristol and nearby Warren, Rhode Island, but also the grand sachem or Massasoit of the entire Wampanoag people. The other seven Wampanoag sagamores had all made their submissions to him, so that his influence extended to all the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, all of Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the Elizabeth islands. His subordinates led the peoples of what is now Middleboro (the Nemasket), the peoples of what is now Tiverton (the Pocasset), and the peoples of what is now Little Compton (the Sakonnet). The other side of the Narragansett Bay was controlled by Narragansett sachems. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE MASSASOIT OUSAMEQUIN “YELLOW FEATHER” 1565 It would have been at about this point that Canonicus would have been born, the 1st son of the union of the son and daughter of the Narragansett headman Tashtassuck. Such a birth in that culture was considered auspicious, so we may anticipate that this infant will grow up to be a Very Important Person. Canonicus’s principle place of residence was on an island near the present Cocumcussoc of Jamestown and Wickford, Rhode Island. -
Mayflower Story.Pdf
OFFICIAL Mayflower Story The Mayflower set sail on 16th September 1620 from Plymouth, UK, to voyage to America, known to English explorers at the time as the New World. But its history and story start long before that. Its passengers were in search of a new life. They would go on to be known as the Pilgrims influencing the future of the United States of America in ways they could never have imagined. This story isn't just about the Mayflower's passengers though. It's about the people who already lived in America such as the Wampanoag tribe and the enormous effect the arrival of these colonists would have on Native Americans and the land they had called home for centuries. The Passengers More than 30 million people, including many celebrities, can trace their ancestry to the 102 passengers and approximately 30 crew aboard the Mayflower when it landed in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, in the harsh winter of 1620. On board were men, women and children from different walks of life across England and the city of Leiden, Holland. A significant number were known as Separatists - people who mostly wanted to live free from the current Church of England, under the ruling of Henry VIII, which dictated all aspects of life and to dispute that rule was a path ending in prosecution. Others were on the ship anticipating the chance to build a better future, the opportunity of new land and the offer of freedom and adventure. The passengers are often grouped into ‘Saints’ or ‘Strangers’ by historians, alluding to their motivations for the journey.