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A staff member impersonating Mrs. Miles Standish works her garden at the Plymouth Plantation Living Museum. 6/20/2012 12:49:21 PM
Tourists interact with the actors at Plymouth Plantation Living Museum. 6/20/2012 12:47:50 PM
Native American site of the Wampanoag Tribe next to Plymouth Plantation Living Museum. 6/20/2012 1:05:11 PM
Plymouth Plantation is considered a living museum where staff (actors) become real historical figures from the original Plymouth Plantation established in 1627 (the museum is not the original site of the settlement).
The staff not only speaks in the first person and dresses as the original pilgrims, but they become specific characters from the period. They also raise the crops and farm animals that might have been raised by the pilgrims in an effort to recreate the atmosphere that existed in the community in 1627. You might run into Miles Standish or his wife and discuss the current difficulties they have had raising corn for example.
The museum was started in 1947 by Henry Hornblower II, a amateur archaeologist. Next to the museum is a recreation of a Native American site of the Wampanoag Tribe. The site is staffed with descendents of Native Americans from several nations dressed in their native clothing.
Jack Crane
Plimoth Plantation is a living museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts that shows the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by English colonists, some of whom later became known as Pilgrims. They were among the first people who immigrated to America to avoid religious persecution and to seek religious separation from the Church of England.
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