Interwoven

Text of the March 1621 alliance made between Plymouth Colony and the Pokanoket Wampanoag sachem Ousemequin (Massasoit) read aloud in modern, American English dialects.

Text of the March 1621 alliance made between Plymouth Colony and the Pokanoket Wampanoag sachem Ousemequin (Massasoit) read aloud in 17th-century English dialects.

Eye witness account of 1621 harvest celebration (Modern English) by Plimoth Patuxet Museums

Eye Witness Account of 1621 harvest celebration read aloud in 17th-century English dialects.

Archaeologist and Museum Gardener, Dr. Fred Dunford, discusses with Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow the transformation of Indigenous and English agricultural practices and the role archaeology plays in helping us better understand farming and gardening from different historic and cultural perspectives. This episode was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations in this podcast do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow and Plimoth's Senior Historian, Richard Pickering, delve into New York Times writer and bestselling author David Brooks’ newest book, The Second Mountain: A Quest for a Moral Life to explore how ideas of social contract applied to 17th-century communities and how they influenced the Mayflower Compact.

As our society reexamines the meaning of gender for a new generation, Malka Benjamin and Kerri Helme discuss what it meant to be a woman in English and Wampanoag societies 400 years. Please be advised that the conversation includes information about female menstruation, sex, pregnancy, miscarriage, sexual assault, and childbirth.

Dr. David Landon and host, Hilary Goodnow, discuss the origins of Historical Archaeology at Plimoth Plantation and the legacy of archaeologist Dr. James Deetz being carried forward by Project 400 - a collaboration between the University of Massachusetts Boston, Plimoth Plantation, and the Town of Plymouth to uncover and explore the 17th century communities of Plimoth and Patuxet.

Host Hilary Goodnow chats with Plimoth Plantation Food Historian Kathleen Wall about 17th-century drink from the brewing of beer to the distilling of spirits and much more. Sources discussed: Gervase Markham (1568-1637), The English Housewife: Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman. ed. Michael Best. McGill-Queens University Press, 1986.

Join Deputy Executive Director Richard Pickering for an exploration of William Brewster's formative years in the court of Elizabeth I including his relationship with Secretary of State Sir William Davison and their role in the downfall and execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

You may be familiar with some of the more famous Plymouth Colony names like William Bradford, William Brewster, or Miles Standish; but few know much about Isaac Allerton - an enigmatic man who rose to prominence in Plymouth, Marblehead, New Haven, and New Netherlands between 1620 and 1659. In this episode, host Hilary Goodnow spoke with historians David Furlow and Lisa Pennington who are working to unravel the mystery of Isaac Allerton and his family across the 17th-century Atlantic World.

The Interwoven team is back at Mayflower II to catch up with Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations for Plimoth Plantation and Matt Barnes, lead shipwright on the Mayflower II Restoration Project at Mystic Seaport's Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. They shared exciting updates on the restoration process that have occurred since our last interview in March 2017 and introduced us to some of the project's amazing collaborators. Restoring an Icon: Part I is available to download or stream from iTunes and on SoundCloud. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for America grant number MA-30-16-0166-16.

Sixty years ago, the Mayflower II arrived in Plymouth Harbor after a 55-day sea voyage. She was greeted by a crowd of tens of thousands of spectators. One spectator was Linda Cabot Black who saw the ship first in Provincetown then drove all the way to Plymouth to see her again. In this special soundbite from Interwoven, Ms. Black shares her Mayflower Memories with Plimoth Plantation staff.

​What did it take to make a house a home in early Plymouth Colony? Dr. Kathryn Ness, Plimoth Plantation's Curator of Collections, takes listeners behind the scenes to share how each house in the 17th-Century English Village is curated to reflect the family that lived there and the global economy that fueled their world.

What does it mean to be Native/Indian/indigenous/first people in 2017? For this new series of conversations with a diverse group of Native political, educational, and cultural leaders from across the country, ​​Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow spoke with Elaine Yellow Horse, a tribal prosecutor for the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota​,​ about the importance of community, tradition, and restorative justice.

What does it mean to be Native/Indian/indigenous/first people in 2017? As the first in a series of conversations with a diverse group of Native political, educational, and cultural leaders from across the country, Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow talks with Dr. Cedric Woods (Lumbee), Trustee of Plimoth Plantation and ​the ​Founding Director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

During its sail In 1957, when Mayflower II neared Plymouth, Massachusetts, a US Navy blimp hovered above taking pictures. The photographer aboard the blimp was Clarence Goguen. Mr. Goguen visited with Plimoth Plantation staff to share his one-of-a-kind story.

Podcast host Hilary Goodnow and Brown University's Dr. Linford Fisher explore the "spectrum of unfreedom" and the evolution of native enslavement across the 17th century through 3 historic characters: Tisquantum (Squanto), the son of Metacomet (King Philip), and Tituba.

Podcast host Hilary Goodnow talks with Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations at Plimoth Plantation, about the on-going restoration of Mayflower II. Whit details aspects of the wooden boat restoration process and shares some of the challenges and joys he's encountered along the way. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for America grant number MA-30-16-0166-16.

Host Hilary Goodnow, takes listeners behind the scenes at Plimoth Plantation’s newest living history exhibit - the Plimoth Grist Mill! Millers Kim VanWormer and Matt Tavares discuss the history, science and technology of grain milling in the 17th century and share their passions for heirloom grains, green energy, and historic trades.

Plimoth Plantation's Master Textile Artisan, Dan Rosen, explores how English colonists acquired and used their clothes in New and Old England and how they adjusted their style to suit new environments and climates.

Dr. Peter Manseau, Curator of Religion for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, talks with podcast host Hilary Goodnow about the new Religion in America initiative and the upcoming collaboration with Plimoth Plantation to recover the lost sacred sounds of colonial America. Plimoth Plantation has created a unique documentary theater program exploring the intersection of two religious musical traditions: hymns and psalms from the Church of England and Calvinist congregations, and the sacred song and dance of the Wampanoag, the indigenous people of Cape Cod, the Islands and southern Massachusetts. See the performance "Waking the Ancestors" at the National Museum of American History on November 5-6, 2016. http://americanhistory.si.edu/waking-the-ancestors

Plymouth Antiquarian Society Executive Director, Dr. Anne Reilly, and podcast host Hilary Goodnow, explore how the 300th anniversary of Mayflower's arrival in 1920 changed the way Americans saw and told the Pilgrim story.

In "Music of the Spheres: How the Seventeenth Century Shapes the Future of Sound" John Prevedini and host, Hilary Goodnow, explore some of the major shifts that occurred in music during the 1600s, how these changes still influence us today, and what contemporary artists can learn from the success of the Early Modern legacy.

Plimoth Plantation's Deputy Executive Director, Richard Pickering, discusses with host Hilary Goodnow the Phinneus Pratt Narrative of 1662 and Pratt's discussion of the Pilgrim's first winter in New England. How do we marry Pratt's memories decades later with accounts from William Bradford and Edward Winslow written 1620-1622?

Dr. Nancy Koppelman discusses the theory of a "new Puritan" and how she and her students from Evergreen State College draw parallels between the 17th-century English worldview and contemporary issues in social justice and reform.

UMass Boston's Dr. Malcolm Smutts explores English concepts of land use and ownership, and how those ideas were transplanted in 17th-century New England.

Oral Traditions, like storytelling, are one of the primary sources we engage at Plimoth Plantation. In this Podcast Soundbite from "Voices from the Past," host Hilary Goodnow interviews Living History Educator Dan Shears about storytelling as both entertainment and education in native communities.

Sport, Play and the Exercising of Arms Living History Educator Christopher Messier discusses sports and military exercises as entertainment in Early Plymouth Colony.

Curator and Associate Director of Pilgrim Hall Museum (Plymouth, MA), Stephen O'Neill explores the unique funerary practices of Puritans and Separatists in early Plymouth Colony. Recorded at Plimoth Plantation on October 24, 2015.

Plimoth Plantation's blacksmiths/colliers, Mark Atchison and Mattheo Brault, discuss making fuel for the fire from mining iron and mineral coal in England to the production of wood charcoal for early industries in New England. Plus, discover some of the ins-and-outs of being the village blacksmith.

Ep. 1.07: Wampum for the Wedding Native Artisan Bob Charlebois discusses the cultural and economical roles of wampum in native society and bringing it all together in a custom wampum belt for the 1623 Bradford Wedding.

Ep. 1.06: Material Culture in Wampanoag Country Tim Roderick, Curator of Native Reproductions, discusses traditional native material culture and playing a 17th-century Wampanoag man at the 1623 Bradford Wedding.

Ep. 1.05: Dressing the Part Kayla McCumber, Manager of Historical Clothing & Textiles, explores English wedding fashions and customs and how things changed in New England.

Ep. 1.04: Being a Bradford Living History Educators Doug Blake and Kyle Brennan share their insights on playing William and Alice Bradford and how they prepare to accurately portray a diplomatic wedding in New England.

Ep. 1.03: A Feast Fit for a Governor and a Sachem Foodways Culinarian Kathleen Wall and Baker Tani Mauriello discuss how to prepare a 17th-century New English "bride-ale" for a diplomatic wedding.

Ep. 1.02: A Wedding as Diplomacy, Part II Darius Coombs, Director of Wampanoag and Algonkian Interpretive Training, discusses interpreting European sources with native lenses, Wampanoag diplomacy with early Plymouth Colony, and playing Massasoit.

Ep. 1.01: A Wedding as Diplomacy, Part I Richard Pickering, Plimoth Plantation's Deputy Executive Director, explores the political relationships between 17th-century Plimoth and Pokanoket and how the Bradford Wedding served as a catalyst for Native-English diplomacy in early Plymouth Colony.