Mayflower

This happened up in Plymouth, Rock,

the Mayflower.

Supposedly Native Americans and Pilgrims.

1621 is the date that we give the original Thanksgiving.

I was wrong.

It starts with the Mayflower Compact in 1620.

Explain that to us.

Yeah, I think that is a quintessentially American document.

When people ask me, when did America begin? I know they expect me to say 1776, but I say 1620.

And that was because of the Mayflower Compact.

That's the year, of course, that the pilgrims journeyed across the Atlantic to found what became the Plymouth Colony.

And a lot of Americans may have forgotten a little bit of their history here that they didn't come straight from Great Britain where they were persecuted for their faith.

So Cracker Barrel has rolled out their holiday menu, which includes things like cinnamon swirl pancakes, country fried turkey sandwiches, along with a cinnamon swirl latte as well.

Landman star Billy Bob Thornton is set to host a three-part docuseries about the Mayflower starting November 23rd on Fox Nation.

The Mayflower was, of course, the 17th century ship that in 1620 transported English families to what would become the American colony, then state, of Massachusetts.

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This is kind of a running thing on the show.

Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

History of Bunker Hill.

He's written about Benedict Arnold.

I mean, you're the guy who taught me that Miles Standish of the Pilgrims, all of his fellow Pilgrims were like, oh, yeah, Captain Shrimp.

And I just, you know, as someone who had to go to Plymouth Plantation every year in grade school when I was tiny, Captain Shrimp makes me laugh.

But also just the way you reexamine all of the Mayflower Thanksgiving mythology, right? Yeah.

um but it's all of the tiny details that you find while you're doing your research and also i think people don't remember too that like what we know is thanksgiving and the mayflower and all of that legacy really starts to happen in 1850 when william bradford's book comes out and he's like this is the book about plymouth plantation and this is all you need to know and it's basically kind of the east coast version of this western creation mythology that we're seeing with the gold rush

All right.

She is the ninth great-granddaughter, so nine greats, great-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger William Brewster.

He was a Puritan, and he had a son, Jonathan, and daughters named Prudence, Love, and Fear.

Wow.

Not surprised to hear those names from a Puritan.

No.

Do you know that this is a historical fact that there were four unaccompanied children aboard the Mayflower? Oh, really? Yeah.

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