Plymouth Rock's American Symbolism Exceeds Its Appearance

the story of Plymouth Rock is that they brought their boat right next to that

rock

in 1620 they got off the boat they got on the

rock

they got off the rock they got on the beach whether it happened or not it's hard to say I probably think they used it as a point reference when they came ashore instead of stepping on it, but that's the story, so they landed here in 1620 and spent the winter, it's a very hard winter, about half the people are dead. At the end of the first winter they spend the summer and one of the common things in this period is that once you have the harvest, you have a little celebration, the hard work is done, you have everything. the food and you want to eat some of the food essentially, so they have that celebration and Massasoit shows up with about 90 of the amazing people bringing five deer, there are a lot of things on the menu, some of them We recognize some of them, we wouldn't recognize deer or certainly on the menu there will be some type of poultry on the menu, it's more likely to be duck rather than turkey, but turkeys are certainly a possibility, no cranberries yet, they don't have them, they don't have them. sugar to sweeten them, but that first Thanksgiving would have taken place five hundred or a thousand feet from where we are now, the true importance of the rock no matter how big it is and it doesn't matter if I stepped on it because the true importance of the rock It's that rock as a symbol and people have to decide for themselves what Plymouth Rock means to them and when people leave here, our goal is for people to look at the rock not just as a rock. but looking at it symbolically