Lowell s Boat Shop launches Mayflower Shallop II
Carol Feingold/Correspondent
Head down to Point Shore this month to see a piece of history.
Last week, Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury launched the Mayflower Shallop II, an historical reproduction of the small rowing and sailing vessel the Pilgrims would have used to “discover” Plymouth Harbor in 1621.
The shallop will stay at the end of the LBS dock on the Merrimack River for about three weeks before traveling to Plymouth to join Mayflower II.
“The boat will remain here to finish the final work,” said Graham McKay, LBS executive director and master boat builder. “We launched it to take advantage of the astronomically high tides and I would expect to leave around the third week in May. It remains to be seen if we’re going to sail it down or it will go by truck. It’s a matter of insurance. Insurance companies are getting nervous about boats.”
Wareham High Class of 2021’s prom will be at Plimoth Plantation
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WAREHAM – The Wareham High School Class of 2021 had its prom venue OK’d back in February 2020.
Then things really changed, noted Principal Scott Palladino.
The venue selected in those pre-COVID days wasn’t going to provide the safety needed under school protocols, which include students remaining 6 feet apart when they remove masks to eat lunch.
So the students and their faculty advisors had to find a venue that could provide the kind of space needed to assure that the students would remain 6 feet apart when they were at the table to eat.
Detail of the new wampum belt for The Box. (SmokeSygnals, Massachusetts, USA)
Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America will be displayed next to The Boxâs major
Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy exhibition in England, which tells a shared transatlantic history
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Concurrent celebrations which began in 2020 at Plimoth Patuxet Museums (formerly Plimoth Plantation) in Massachusetts include the return of a newly restored
Mayflower II, Plimoth s full-scale reproduction of the tall ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth (Mass.) in 1620.Â
The Box, Plymouth s (UK) major new museum, gallery and archive, first opened its doors to visitors in September 2020 and is re-opening May 18 following a five-month closure due to COVID-19.
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PLYMOUTH – Local veterans honored Mayflower II’s World War II roots last week as Plimoth Patuxet Museums (formerly Plimoth Plantation) opened for the new season.
Veterans who donated service medals and memorabilia to the ship’s new bronze bell took turns ringing it Saturday morning aboard the replica of the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England in 1620.
“There is a common bond between veterans and the Pilgrims in that the men and women of our military take an oath and do not know where they will serve or what dangers they may face in the name of freedom,” Denis Russell, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1822, said before giving the bell a clang.