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Plimoth Plantation: Virtual Field Trip

Feb 18, 2020
Welcome everyone to the first Thanksgiving. We will be coming to you live from Plymouth Plantation, the extraordinary living museum here in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and during today's

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tour we were going to travel back in time to the year 1621, just one year after the voyage of the Mayflower. and about a month after the now famous festival, we will visit the 17th century farming town built by English settlers in the middle of the Wampanoag homeland. We will learn more about the Wampanoag people, the native people who originally inhabited the land, and learn about the first permanent settlement of settlers in England, better known as the Pilgrims.
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We will also compare and contrast the daily lives of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, how they lived, how they gave thanks, and the food they ate, and of course, we will learn about the 1621 harvest celebration that we know today as Thanksgiving, so There's a lot to cover in the next 30 minutes and here to guide us through today's

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tour is the director of education and public programs here in Plymouth. Plantation Kim van Wermer and education manager Randy Joseph sorry, who is also a member of the Wampanoag Nation. Oh, welcome, thank you for allowing us to visit us tonight and our Google Earth map shows the students exactly where we are, which is in the Plymouth Massachusetts belt with a why and we are in Plymouth Plantation written with an eye and I want to make sure In order for our viewers to understand that this is not a misspelling, no it is not, we decided to have our museum spell the name of the museum the way they wrote it.
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It was more common in the 17th century in the 17th century, although there were no spelling rules, so people wrote the words as they sounded today, they sounded like Plymouth and were spelled with an eye, yes, now Kym, tell me what the people in Plymouth, I mean, how. Does the museum tell the story of what really happened during this important period in history? Well, it's a museum of people, so when you come here, you meet people who portray the English settlers and you meet people who are native. American who will tell you about the Wampanoag who lived here, ok Randy, let me talk to you for a minute about the natives, as Kim mentioned, or how strangely they inhabited this land long before the Pilgrims arrived in the early 17th century for about twelve thousand. years, I understand what you can tell us about the Wampanoag.
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Well, for us we were gatherers and hunters, we took care of the land and believed that the Great Kiat Spirit blessed us with everything to live a healthy and successful life, in return we honored what we wanted. the two legs of the quadruped the water beans father sky a mother earth very well, I would like to take out the warrior advisor who was the intermediary between the Wampanoag and the pilgrims and his name is hubba, mock and I want to welcome you hubba knock hubba mock sorry how are you lanique II suck tell me what is wampa nog the word Wampanoag means wampa nog means people who see the first light people of the morning people of the dawn since we are parents 'if we can go we are the ones who see the morning fast so tell me a little bit about what your daily life on earth is like real quick when the sun rises we fish we hunt we hunt birds depending on the time of year season oh wow wash key tom pand man Hunt and fish Thomas we a woman had a farm at home, prepare meals, he finds us good and meat, that food, food and I see the Englishman Chuck walk why in a new comment with the colonists, right, yes, like talking about the colonists now for so many centuries that you lived. alone on land and suddenly you were cohabiting what did you think of the English settlers when they first arrived?
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Did you become friends with them? Well, womp anak knew that he had to be careful with the new English, because of the bad English of the past. Both experiences are not good, yes, but not all. The Wampanoag want English, but as long as I stay here and watch, it's okay, it's okay to talk about them. I imagine when they first came here they needed help learning how to survive on the land. Did you help them? How did you help them learn to survive here? mainly a quantum help test English teaches how to plant corn crop with an economy, but not all Wampanoag want to help in English not all Wampanoag want English here, you were good, you agreed with that.
The teacher saw it, he told me who Sumiko and who is Massasoit. from Womp Anak told me that he should see English Kim. How about we make fun of telling ourselves that the Wampanoag had a thriving culture here before the English settlers arrived? What do we know about these settlers? It's just interesting to think that they would. leave their land leave their homes give up all their well-being really to come to this New England as they called it yes, they must have had a very good reason and the reason why there are several really the main one is because they wanted to improve their lives and England was quite populated, they wanted to think that they could come here and get their own land and that this would be a place where their families could prosper, which was one of the reasons why a lot of people move, I think, but there are also people among them who I had sort of an argument with the King's Church and the Church of England and they wanted to live on English soil, which they considered New England because it was claimed by the king, but they wanted to live on English soil but still be far enough away. far from they would not have to worry about being persecuted for following their own religion, we know them today as the pilgrims, where they always call the pilgrims.
If you went to our English village today and asked someone if they were a pilgrim, they might look. a little confused, it wasn't until the 19th century that a scholar read some of William Bradford's works and saw that there was a passage that said they knew they were pilgrims and said, oh, they were the pilgrims and it's kind of stuck and people started calling them that from that time now we have two I will call them settlers with us today good wife Elizabeth Hopkins and her stepdaughter Constance both are with us welcome hello good day I recover constant sector Southdale good wife let me start with you, when did you arrive and her husband Steven Wright Steven to America?
We arrived at 1620 in the month of November that we had been preparing in June, we got on the boat and Julie sailed it under such anchor on November 11, the 11th, I think I and did. We won't find Plymouth and start building our houses until Christmas Day, December 5th and 20th. I want to ask you a little about the

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because I know that you gave birth to your son Oceanus in the sea, which is me. guess an appropriate name, that's the military man, his birthday, tell me a little about what the

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was like for your family, it was freaking horrible, you know, we were all pretty sick from the pitching and rolling of the ship and/or everything in it our stomachs.
We didn't stay there long, it was very dark, we were below decks and there were so many beds, 102 people that we couldn't move, we mainly sat together on our bed in the dark and told stories, slept and prayed for each other a lot. yes I was afraid how long the trip lasted oh it was more than two months did your father say 65 66 days it was me that is a long time to live in those circles constant conditions in fact you were only 15 years old when you arrived here with your family what were some of the most adjustments important things you had to do.
It's really just because of the lack of civility in this new country because we have um, it's very wild and we came from London with a lot of people very busy with those things and in this new country. we must be we don't have a laundress so we must wash our own clothes and spend many hours doing that we don't have a butcher baker and all these things we must be hunters and things like that in England that none of us should do but try to do it and you had to sell your own clothes , you had to do all the things I'm teaching you, we saw things like this, yes, our aprons and our chefs, and those things we do, we have to keep them divided until we get more supplies from England or not, I don't know how to make it good WiFi connection.
It is obvious that their lives changed dramatically when they arrived here. How well do you and your neighbors get along with the natives we spoke to? briefly about this: hubba-wha gang, what were some of the biggest challenges you faced in your daily life with them at this time? There is a Peace Treaty with these people for which we are very grateful and this man, Hubble, marks it. He lives in our town and is helping us with the relationship between the great king, the massive people of Pokanoket, we are grateful for that relationship, although there are others in this area who do not want us as well and we are a little afraid of them, in fact.
There are men who watch our town every night to make sure that other neighboring people who do not wish us well do not cause us any harm. It's a great comfort to have that relationship, although I imagine it's a good relationship, so there we are. learning a little bit about daily life, what it's like for both the settlers and the natives here and I'd like to compare and contrast these lives a little more, some of the basics from both perspectives, so let me start. With you, good wife, let's talk about housing. I know you'd like to give us a little tour of the home, so tell us a little about it.
My hosts here in New England are very different than those in England. Our houses here are covered in wood. On the outside that is very expensive in England and there is no hosiah on top, livid and it was covered with wood, the roof is like many in England but here we thought that it would be made with reeds and cattails from the swamp and not with straw as we could have at home some the houses have reeds in England most have thatch the inside here is a room that you can see and the corner here is a bed that goes on the floor for Constance and her brother also has a little on the floor at night this here is an eel pot with which we catch eels in the river English eel, roast eel, eel pie is really a good meal and here is the bed that my husband and I sleep on the children, as I said, take your beds to the floor, this table is where we eat and gather I prepare my food here and in this area this is my kitchen and here is the fire where we cook all the things we eat or we cook it over the fire and this is my host New Plymouth pretty simple the room is what it is and it looks very cozy actually and it goes crazy I know you're at home a little bit - I think it's called it's very different can you describe a little bit about it?
Nucky, yes, womp anak wheat a SST, let me, that's all. bok tree tree skin tree yes no it's flat more round round like peace a sua da small da much smiled or a smaller door right Nicky's yes you have to crawl actually yes clear open much warmer much warmer talking about warm it seems something like that warm I want to talk about clothing right now, obviously there are some surprising differences, as we can clearly see. I thought maybe you could describe what you're wearing as if my daughter and my eyes were wearing a vest with a wool petticoat, which is the warmest thing, yeah.
I also wear linen things like this, my apron and we have stockings pinned up with Garrett, oh yeah, Julie and the bonnet on my head and I have a hat for the witnesses outside to keep the sun off your face, it's very appropriate to wear. a hat also has an undergarment that goes from our Nick to our knees, so it's a leather Xuan of course yes, and a leather shoe, and do you wear the hats indoors too or only when you're outdoors or not, usually, but you always cover yourself? your head, yes, it is appropriate, it is more practical when one works to cover one's hair, it is not the law, but that is how everyone, like us, in England there are noble and rich people who leave their hair down or uncover it, but we're not that type, okay, central brand, could you describe what you're wearing please?
I'm Nicky, some headdress edges yes from Panisse waka Warriors mm-what warriors pinnock and leather dear ethics dear dear Lola English Chuck catwalk Mancala stockings stockings moccasin Yosh made of moose moose the keys and uh Oh mommy, everything is dear and all that you wear around your neck it's all handmade the keys yeah, um, can I walk, Chuck, hike, ski, honk for the winter, all right, it's really hot, actually, um, I wanted to? Now let's move on to giving thanks a little. I know everyone there are many different ways to give thanks and many different reasons. How and why we give thanks.
I'm curious how the settlers and natives expressed their gratitude. Are there specific rituals and celebrations? that you continue of course every day we give thanks at all times always when we are eating and when we are cooking we are thanking God for what he has given us and for what we have to eat that's why every time we eat we pray we pray throughout the day to thank God because all the good we have is far from the goodness of God for which we should always be grateful and always remember and a humble mark are the rituals you perform to express gratitude now Keith yes when wampa nog hunts yes before you die and after praying we give thanks before eating meat, the ashes need asheet mhm we pray we give thanks before the sun rises we pay we give thanks or the sun sets we pray we give thanks you are grateful for the day every day I Tired of the food you eat well.
I just want to ask you about those rituals that continue in modern customs with the Wampanoag. I'm definitely with the Wampanoag in the Confederacy, a nation that holds ceremonies all summer and spring. Spring is our New Year, so that's it. the time when we would have ceremony and give thanks also the first berry that ripens of the year is a strawberry, we have a strawberry, Thanksgiving, part of our harvest, we have a green corn, Thanksgiving and then also in the fall, the blueberry It is a last berry and They are well known in a wing with four blueberries and that is why we have ceremonies then and also for the winter that are called nekoma because over time it is a time in which the snowfall is called medicine and then, when it melts, everything is new again and I love hearing that the strawberries are the first to reach Darvis' heart and the blueberries are the last, that's interesting and everything else, right, I'm talking about food I wanted to ask you. is food a part of your daily gratitude ritual will really win as a tone we give thanks true it is a day when we eat nothing we fast our eldest can say Plymouth we will give thanks for something wonderful that has happened and We will not eat all day but we will pray because even our hunger will remind us of our gratitude for what God has given us and that is why for us a Thanksgiving day is a day in which we do not eat anything.
You don't need it, it's very different for us today it's food part of a ritual so obviously when you're hunting it must be yes according to the weather we give thanks and we celebrate first many of the berries strawberries blueberries is all that finds us everything is in the meat sauce , right, no, I want to move on to the first harvest meal that we talked about in the year 1621, when this occurred when the Plymouth settlers Plymouth and the strange people shared a fall harvest banquet that I believe is recognized today as one of the first Thanksgiving in the colonies.
I know there are a lot of uncertainties about this, but what do we know about what really happened? Well, we're lucky to have a source. Edward Winslow wrote a letter to a friend in England describing the event and that's why he gives us a lot of information. We know that it lasted three days. We know that they had wild birds that went out to hunt birds. We know that there were feasts and sports and we know that there were about 50 Englishmen. there and over 90 wampa dogs, so the bundle and I were there, yes, but the thing is also that if it was some kind of gathering, you would probably bring women and children.
Massasoit comes in Pokanoket, we believe he stopped at every town coming from Rhode. Island up here and meeting Panisse, the relationship was still new between these two cultures at that time because a treaty was signed in the spring so anything could happen at any time, but as the document is written we know that Massasoit sent five warriors to shoot five deer, so we also saw that he was the leader of the Pocono coconut, yes, and he sent those men and in a native way, when you give someone a gift, we know that everything is fine and therefore it is a gift at the banquet, you would bring food for the colonists, right, okay, that's a lot like what we do today.
I guess it's true, we all bring food for our big Thanksgiving meal. Speaking of you, you mentioned the banquet, can you tell us a little about it? a little about the food that was eaten at the first harvest meal, yes, really, I helped my mother repair the food and I helped her prepare the one we had, um, we roasted the dock, the father shot that day that was He was falling. and he shot it down the pier we wrote it together, yes, we had some of the native car and of this country, yes, we had some of that in Lower Pompey, that is a pumpkin that is needed, it is a foot plate, yes, We eat that all the At this time of year, yes, those are some of the things, yes, very good leaves and garbage things, what did the Wampanoag contribute to the festival?
We, Panisse, walk, the warriors mm-hmm, rot, I spoke well, deer, deer, yes, this morning you mentioned it. I'd love to know what events took place with the sporting events, so we look at that kind of thing and the bar toss where the men take a big beam and see how far they can throw it and which man can throw it. The farthest a good test of strength for them in the trailer and they favor that and of course exercising their weapons and it's always entertaining for us to watch them fire their weapons and practice their military skills because it's important to us. go to our safe, but it's also good entertainment to see them do that and they did it that day too and today it meant lifting a big leather pigskin and they throw it in the air during the holidays, we call it football, you throw it. with the hand and yes, we launch it with the hands, that's right, communities. um I know a lot of our students watching today have so many questions so I've been asking all the questions and I think it's time for us to hear from some of them so we've had so many presentations we only have time for a few and the first comes from a kindergarten class at South Elementary School in San Diego, California, let's look at this question: what do kids have with toys and games like us, so here I like it? their hairstyle, children ask if children have toys and games like us, that's something yes, children have, that's right, children.
Oh, right, yes, we have a puppet, it's made of linen with wool and things like that, yes, a cup and a ball. I shouldn't try to do it because I'd probably miss it, hey Jules, this is a bowl, it's made of weathered leather with a lot of wall, so it should bounce very tight and I have in my pocket here our marbles that we also play with. So many games, yes, on the boards, moving pieces on the boards, and we also have, did you bring any toys for our children to play with? Yeah, um, and the same ball, ball and cup looks like it's made of bones, although true, yeah, yeah, okay, moose balls. yes, the Kohi Oaxaca soca ball, all calibers, yes, dear lava and that's it.
Oh, Thor is inside. Nucky, yes, and an adult dog means the same thing. Okay, the following question was submitted by Palm Avenue School in San Bernardino, California. and they asked you where you stayed when you first came to the new world before you built your houses. We were on the ship that the Mayflower that came came here and anchored and once we found Plymouth the ship could only travel a mile or two. from the coast because the harbor is so shallow that a big ship couldn't get there, which means we were living two miles out to sea in the sea in December January February it was very cold and there were a lot of people there and the men rowed in small boats to build their hoses every day and then come back to sleep on the boat and people got very sick that winter and many of them died as a result of that, it was difficult, we were very grateful when our host was full, if not it was good to be around a fire and I'm sure you didn't have airplanes back then nor do you touch hello, you must have been very grateful to have your own oh we are, yes, were you by a fire and cooking over the fire?
I'm so wonderful, yes. and your feet firmly on the ground are doing well our next question comes to us from Conway Grammar School which is in Conway Massachusetts How do you keep food fresh if you don't have a refrigerator? An interesting question. I chop the meat so that the meat, the venison, the fish, the clams, are fresh every day, so you will eat the meat fresh, yes, you don't have to sit tight, oh yes, since we need a pumpkin pieces with bestkuda, ooh, cool, small, a little cool, and rest, what all the rest grows. old dry, they dry out and we can maintain a spring winter for a long time for when we grow next year.
Our next question comes to us from a third grade class at Alpharetta Elementary School in Alpharetta Georgia and let's see what they ask. Hi, I'm CJ. and little Frankie here wants to know what you really missed about your homeland Frankie wants to know what you really missed about your homeland. I miss the markets at the fair which is the most important because in London there are various markets that sell all kinds of things that I can see and a lot of entertainment in seeing some at the fairs and things like that, and I should miss them a lot and just the comfort of other people around you.
I am very used to many people always seeing diversity and not in this country, it is mainly Yankee trees. trees and there are only about 50 of you right now, almost half of our company is dead, well we have one, we have time for one more question and it comes to us from a second grade class at Willow Grove School in Poway, California and Kim, I'm going to ask you this question, how did the word Thanksgiving really come about? Well, I think it comes from giving thanks because that's certainly what we do, although I think there are two different types of Thanksgiving, one is the one that is good.
Wife Hopkins talked about what for them is more of a religious celebration where there is no food involved but it is definitely a time to give thanks and then there is the harvest celebration that we have been talking about that took place in 1621 and that was also a way of giving. thanks, but it was called more of a harvest celebration, well, our own Thanksgiving is just around the corner. How different would you say the 1621 harvest was from today's celebration? That is a good question. I don't think they had any parades or Black Friday that day. after all that and all that, the meals were a little different, we don't know for sure if they really ate turkey back then, there was no mashed potatoes, such different foods, different foods and to what extent would you say the celebration could be similar .
What are some of the customs that have come down that should have been preserved through the years? Well, I think it's for all the people who are given thanks that day for loved ones in the family who come together to prepare a meal that brings people and you together. I don't see uncles, aunts and cousins ​​much, maybe once or twice a year and that is the time to sit down and celebrate family life. Yes I agree with you. I think that's what makes this particular holiday so special: the idea of ​​giving thanks. It transcends many of our beliefs, our customs, it is truly a cross-cultural acceptance of giving thanks and I think we all make it our own.
I was reflecting when we talked about food, my own family, I come from an Italian family and our turkey stuffing is made with provolone cheese and ham and pancetta, bacon, Italian bacon, so it's a very different yes, but I think everyone has their own traditions, and we are talking about food. It's making me very hungry to talk about it. Terrible about housewife. I am yes. Actually, I don't offer you some food, we have a turkey stew that is partially cooked with Indian corn that we keep dry all year that I am in Turkey, so I have a stew here mixed with turkey and Indian corn. and oh boy, yes, Constance, you can serve him that, so I'm a staple dish to give him a high.
You know what, I'll just eat it straight, it's usually easier, right? Wow, thank you Constance, some bread for you teacher, okay, other things, we could continue insulting fresh turkeys, something small like that, we will eat it fresh after cooking it, all good, teacher jumps crazy I would say this It is really good, yes, thank you teacher, this is very very good, my my husband says that the voltage of Turkey is very accurate, it is very good. I must say that I am very grateful to be here today. I am so grateful to have gotten to know you all a little better to learn about your customs, the relationships between the two of you, this incredible museum, if you have not yet visited Plymouth Plantation, I urge you to do so with your families and your schools.
This is really it, this experience is more than just stepping into the time machine, it's a powerful history lesson. and it's a history lesson come to life and it's a lesson in understanding how that history informs us today, so on behalf of all of us here at Plymouth Plantation, on behalf of all of us at Scholastic we want to wish you a very, very happy Memorial Day. Thanksgiving, thanks for joining us. today goodbye everyone

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