5 - 'The May-Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1832)

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Episode 5! Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," which first appeared in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1832. It was later included in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of Hawthorne's short stories, in 1837. It tells the story of the colony of Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, a 17th-century British colony located in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.

The story does not include "Merry Mount's" leader, Thomas Morton, who was a super interesting guy and, as I'll argue, America's first "globalist."

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References:

Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (CSPAN, May 21, 2001)

https://www.c-span.org/video/?164017-1/writings-nathaniel-hawthorne

"The very hydra of the time": Morton's New English Cannan and Atlantic trade" by Daniel Walden, Early American Literature. 48.2 (Spring 2013)

Jorge Luis Borges on Hawthorne

https://inmaculadadecepcion.blogspot.com/2007/12/jorge-luis-borges-nathaniel-hawthorne.html?m=1

"The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies," by Alan Taylor

"Hawthorne: A Life,"by Brenda Wineapple