095 The World of Plymouth Plantation | Carla Gardina Pestana
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
It's the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower! Maybe you learned about Plymouth and the Mayflower back in grade school but, if you're like me, haven't really thought about it much since.
This episode is a great refresher on the story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620. But, more importantly, it's also a deep dive to understand the whole story that they didn't tell you in grade school.
To get a sense of real life for the pilgrims at Plymouth and to set the colony properly within global history, I'm joined by Carla Gardina Pestana. Carla is the author of the book, The World of Plymouth Plantation.
Tune in to learn…
-Why the pilgrims left England,
-Why the Mayflower Compact was created out of desperation,
-About the first Native American interactions (& peace treaty),
-Who Squanto really was,
-What the Pilgrims actually wore,
-If the Pilgrims ate turkey for Thanksgiving,
-& so much more!
Grab your copy of Carla's book, The World of Plymouth Plantation, at https://amzn.to/3c4dpln
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the 95th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:13.2 | 95 episodes. Wow. Almost 200. |
| 0:16.5 | It's crazy. Sorry. Give me a moment to reflect. |
| 0:21.2 | Okay. Well, this episode I have on Carla Pistana, she is the author of a book called The World of Plymouth Plantation. |
| 0:29.2 | So we're talking about Plymouth and the Pilgrims, but we shouldn't really call them the pilgrims, and you'll find out. |
| 0:36.1 | So this is a fun episode. |
| 0:38.1 | I think it's really interesting. |
| 0:39.3 | It's the story of, you know, Plymouth, the Mayflower, Thanksgiving-ish, sort of, you know, |
| 0:45.0 | the story you've heard about how they come over and they land on the rock and all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:50.1 | And the Native Americans are there and Squanto. |
| 0:53.4 | You know, it's that story, but we're going to dive |
| 0:55.8 | deeper and learn about what it really is, you know? So that's what Carla shares with us in |
| 1:01.8 | this episode. It's super fascinating. I really, really love learning this stuff. Like, we do talk |
| 1:08.0 | about Squanto. We talk about what Thanksgiving actually was, why the, quote, |
| 1:12.7 | you know, pilgrims came over here, what they were really looking for when they made the journey |
| 1:17.6 | to North America, how they missed where they were trying to go and accidentally landed up in Plymouth, |
| 1:23.3 | but it'll all come. You'll learn about all this. So without further ado, let's get to Carla, |
| 1:30.7 | the author of the World of Plymouth Plantation in episode 95 right now. |
| 1:38.1 | Carla, hello. Welcome to Curiosity Ness. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:43.4 | Hi. You're welcome. It's my pleasure. |
| 1:46.7 | Cool. Well, excited to talk because this is now, it's the 400th anniversary of all this |
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