Interwoven

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.