Tonight I am looking back to a post I wrote ten years ago where I shared some Thanksgiving related books. I will probably be reading portions of these over the next few weeks.
This book is a little over 100 pages and gives a brief overview of the first years that the Pilgrims spent in America.
Pilgrim Stories was originally written by Margaret Pumphrey, but was later revised and expanded by Elvajean Hall.
Another great resource that I have is Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 by William Bradford.
A newer book that I have about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims is Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick.
This is a very good book and I often go back and read sections of it again.
Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton is another great resource as Stratton is a former Historian General of the General Society of Mayflower descendants.
I do have a Mayflower passenger in my ancestry. I also have ancestors who are considered Old Comers (those who came to Plymouth from 1620-1627).
The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 by Robert Charles Anderson includes profiles of several of my ancestors. I have met Anderson and went to one of his lectures. I enjoy his books and research
The book is part of the Great Migration Study Project and was published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
I have acquired more books about Plymouth and the Mayflower since I wrote this post back in 1993, and some of these are covered in other posts that I have written through the years.
Steven
I will start with a Turkey turkey. I took this picture while on a tour of Turkey with a group of friends.
Here are both the male and female. These were taken in Cappadocia at the Fairy Chimneys. Follow the link for a bit of history about turkeys.
At our old office we would often see a rafter of wild turkeys around out building. I feel bad for the owner of this SUV as there were probably scratches on the roof.
I was able to get a good closeup of a gobbler with an ugly scrawny neck.
The toms do look magnificent with their feathers fanned out though.
Braman's Wanderings 