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Pilgrim Hall reopened February 1, 2009!
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America's oldest museum has entered the
21st century!
Pilgrim Hall
Museum has recently completed a major expansion & renovation
project, adding air-conditioning and a new entry.
The "new" museum also features an imaginative
reinstallation of the
permanent exhibitions of 17th century Pilgrim artifacts.
Visit Pilgrim Hall Museum's new spaces, new exhibitions & new ways of presenting history!
Celebrate the Pilgrims' legacy in the restored
grandeur of our Main Hall and then encounter the actual artifacts
used and owned by the 17th century Plymouth Colonists, in a new
and dramatic installation.
Pilgrim Hall Museum is open daily from 9:30-4:30 February 1 through December
30, 2009.
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2009
- The Year of the Dutch!
Exhibition: The
Dutch Connection
May 31 - December 30, 2009 |
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2009 marks the 400th anniversary of
the Pilgrims' arrival in the city of Leiden, where they
would spend 11 formative years before emigrating (via England and
the Mayflower) to
America.
In honor of this anniversary, Pilgrim Hall Museum's major temporary
exhibition for 2009 (June-December) will focus on the relationship
between early New England and The Netherlands - from the time of
the Pilgrims through the American Revolutionary War.
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The exhibition
features
A View of Leiden, 1650, by Dutch Baroque Era painter Jan
Van Goyen
on loan from Leiden's De Lakenhal Museum
and the
Original 1609 Record Book of the City of Leiden
in which was given permission to the Pilgrims to settle in
Leiden
on loan from the Leiden Regional Archives
(the record book is on view from May 31 - August 31 only due to
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The Dutch Connection
is generously sponsored by
Bruce & Patricia Bartlett
The Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
The City of Leiden, The Netherlands
The Massachusetts Society of the Order of the Cincinnati
The Town of Plymouth Visitor Services Board and
NorthEast Community Bank. |
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The Pilgrims had a connection with
tulips!
Read about it HERE. |
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The Netherlands has issued a
stamp commemorating the Pilgrims' stay in Leiden.
For a look
at the stamp, log onto home.planet.nl/~hemel026/pilgrims-eng.htm |
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Year
of the Dutch Program: Fedele's Let's Do Chocolate!
Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:00 pm
at Pilgrim Hall Museum |
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The Dutch invented a
method known as "Dutch process cocoa" that helped make
chocolate affordable for all! In honor of this contribution,
Ron Fedele of Fedele's Let's Do Chocolate in Plymouth's Village
Landing Marketplace will talk about the wonderful world of
chocolate. |
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Open to the public,
no charge.
Limited seating, reservations advised.
Call 508 746-1620 Extension 2. |
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Generously
sponsored by
Cold Spring Best
Western, Plymouth |
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Program:
Book-Signing & Author Presentation
at Pilgrim Hall Museum
Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 pm
Presented in
cooperation with
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Len Travers and Sheila McIntyre, editors of
The Collected Letters of John Cotton, Jr., 1640-1699 |
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Struggling to recover
from a sex scandal that almost ruined his career, John Cotton
Junior became the Plymouth church's minister in 1667. Over
the next three decades, Cotton reinvented himself, reviving a
long-troubled faltering church and assuming a place among the
colony's leadership. Cotton's clouded past, however,
returned to haunt him and ultimately contributed to the
controversial end of his ministry. Cotton's surviving
correspondence, soon to be published by the Colonial Society,
uncovers fascinating detail regarding Plymouth history but it also
reveals the sometimes sweeping consequences of youthful
indiscretion.
Open to the public at no cost.
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Sponsored by |
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Year
of the Dutch Program: Planning a Flowering Bulb Garden
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:00 am
at Pilgrim Hall Museum |
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There is nothing
more Dutch than tulips! And autumn is the time to be
planting your Spring 2010 tulip garden. Massachusetts
Horticultural Society Master Gardener Kathi Griepy will tell us
how to plan a garden using
flowering bulbs, such as tulips and daffodils. More details
to follow! |
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Its
a 185th Birthday Party!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 |
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admission and birthday cake to honor Pilgrim Hall Museum's
founding on September 1, 1824. |
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Trip
to Nantucket
Tuesday, September 21, 2009 |
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A bus/ferry trip to
the Nantucket Whaling Museum to view the "Harbor & Home"
exhibition (featuring, among other treasures) Pilgrim Hall Museum's Mercy Otis Warren
table.
Organized through the Back Roads of the South Shore museum
collaborative.
For more information, log onto:
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Author
presentation: James Baker
Early fall: date to be announced |
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Author James Baker
will speak about his new book Thanksgiving: The Biography of an
American Holiday. More details to follow! |
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Year
of the Dutch Program: Beer & Cheese Tasting
October 2009 |
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To honor the Dutch
connections! More details to follow. |
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Program:
Our National Thanksgiving
- with Thanks to President Lincoln & Mrs. Hale
Saturday, November 7, 2009 7:00 pm |
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Sarah Josepha Hale,
the Victorian lady whose 30-year campaign to make Thanksgiving a
national holiday was ultimately successful when Abraham Lincoln
heeded her call and released the first of an unbroken series of
Presidential Thanksgiving proclamations in 1863, visits Pilgrim
Hall Museum! (And expect a cameo appearance by Abraham
Lincoln himself who is, this year, celebrating the 200th
anniversary of his birthday!) |
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Holiday
House Tour
Saturday, December 5 & Sunday, December 6, 2009
Preview Party Friday, December 4 |
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Visit some of
Plymouth's most interesting homes, festively decorated for the
holidays. More details to follow. |
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Forefathers Day 2009
Monday,
December 21 |
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Forefathers Day, December 21, is the
anniversary of the day the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. The Pilgrim
Society has been celebrating Forefathers Day since 1820, when our
honored guest and speaker was Daniel Webster. |
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Looking
towards the Future! |
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In
2020, we will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the landing
of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
(and the 200th anniversary of the
founding of the Pilgrim Society.
Planning has already begun - and not a moment too soon!
Do YOU have an idea of something that should be incorporated into
the celebrations?
Send it along to pegbaker@pilgrimhall.org
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On
June 10, 2008, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited
Pilgrim Hall Museum and signed an Executive Order creating a State
Commission to plan the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the
arrival of the Pilgrims in 2020.
Click HERE for pictures of
that event.
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can be made online through www.networkforgood.org
or by filling out a Donation
Form
and mailing it to Pilgrim Hall Museum.
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