Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-02-18
SEEING PLYMOUTH
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Il Ntl0 t20 ~
mouth by water, numerous points
lbf Interest we're pointed out to US
! hat morning, among which was the
place where the British fleet was
anchored at the outbreak OF the rev
dictionary war, tho island on which
the striking policemen were impris-
oned theyear before and others OF
familiar interest which WE ~traversed
later on by auto tours along the
coast roads and viii be mentioned in
that connection About ten o'clock
we sighted land aud were soon pull
ling into the harbor Of
PLYMouTns
where the Mayflower dropped an
Choir on that cod December day in
1920 with the Pilgrim fathers aboard.
We pass over the waters over which
their landing boats rode and tie up
ut a pier which has been built. out
into the bay for convenient landing.
Soon we are out and hurryIng to the
famous PLYMOUTH ROCK which we
are surprised to see is only about
two feet high aud about twice that
long. 1t has the figures 1920"
chiselled prominently on 1T. Its en-
closed in what they cali a canopy,
that is astone curved top with four
supporting posts and there are iron
gazing fences or doors on each Of its
four sides. We are allowed TO file
through and one by n put u
hands on the rock which is a good
type of rough brindle colored stone,
having two or three cemented places
IN il TO cover up cracks. This rock
is located on high and dry ground
Immediately on the landing bank.
We CLEAN from reading that it is
only a part Of the rock on which the
pilgrims first landed. hal being out
in the waters sure enough and this
piece was priced off and carried
ashore for sightseeing and celebra-
ton purposes. We expected to see
a rock about big as a small sized
house and did see many such rocks
off shore.on a visit above Boston to
lEGloucester. Marblehead and other
points. 10 you see you must not get
Your ideas sized too biz or else there
cCmes disappo n%tnients in the actual
sightseeing sometimes. Here later
in the day our. party Submitted TO a
group photograph and heard an
inspiring speech by Joe Mitchell
!Chapple. the noted magaz ne writer,
who lives near Boston, the pith oil
his remarks being that we were
standing there after the lapse oil
three centuries son sacred ground
and like Moses we should slip off our
shoes as this soil was in a sense a
~consecrated spot. a shrine u Amer
dcan pioneers or first settlers. That
was a touching moment and in the
eyes of manv could be seen tears
shedding as we thought of what
those sturdy pilgrims suffered as
they came ashore on that cold win
try cloudy day and planted their set
tlement on these then bl ak shores
peopled by barbarous indians and
their ship leaky and almost unsea-
worthy the only link to connect
them with the mother land of En-.
gland from whence they came and
from whence they must look foi
future supplies or perish possibly
"A short walkcovers the level of this
strip and then we are mounting
up bill ana we come to Brewster
spring where stands some of thu
old houses built 10 the early days.
Our party drinks from the sprirI
the water OF which bubbles out Of
; pipe cold without any ice, possible
as it was when Elder Brewster frs
found it,.
Passing the old houses which shoV
, the type OF buildings of the earl
! Englishssettlers day. we wend GU
way SLOWLY mp the hill coming to tn
I Told FIRST Church on the town square
This is on the second level up froI
i OLD STANDBY, FOR