October 10
Today we visited the Plimouth (You see it spelled two ways. Governor Bradford spelled with an “i” so that spelling is used here.) Colony. It is a reproduction of the village as it stood in 1626, six years after the landing. There were native and colonist actors staying in character during our conversations. We readily mixed with them, asking questions and discussing their present and past conditions. We were told by some other
people in our campground that it would take two hours. Barb and I spent 6 hours there. It was amazing. The role players were so eloquent, so knowledgeable, so 
dedicated to preserving this part of our culture. A truly informative day.
I did ask the museum curator as we exited as to why the difference in the spelling of Plymouth. She related that many words were spelled in a variety of ways. Since there was no Webster dictionary to canonize spelling in colonial times, the writer could show his/her creativity in spelling a word in a variety of ways. I don’t think it is creativity that causes me to use “creat
ive spelling” at times.
Today we visited the Plimouth (You see it spelled two ways. Governor Bradford spelled with an “i” so that spelling is used here.) Colony. It is a reproduction of the village as it stood in 1626, six years after the landing. There were native and colonist actors staying in character during our conversations. We readily mixed with them, asking questions and discussing their present and past conditions. We were told by some other
people in our campground that it would take two hours. Barb and I spent 6 hours there. It was amazing. The role players were so eloquent, so knowledgeable, so 
dedicated to preserving this part of our culture. A truly informative day.I did ask the museum curator as we exited as to why the difference in the spelling of Plymouth. She related that many words were spelled in a variety of ways. Since there was no Webster dictionary to canonize spelling in colonial times, the writer could show his/her creativity in spelling a word in a variety of ways. I don’t think it is creativity that causes me to use “creat
ive spelling” at times.Pictures from the native side: Wampanoag Hut, women cooking inside, children, and native Vanessa, a recent grad from UMass and will attend Harvard graduate school starting in September.
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