What was life like in Plymouth before all the tourists arrived (although I guess if you ask the Natives, the Europeans were the original pushy tourists)? This program explores the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts and the Pilgrims who settled there. The adult slide program takes participants on a walking tour of the Plymouth of today and 1627. They will discover where the fort and the first houses were as well as where Hobbamock, the ambassador from the Native leader Massasoit, and his family lived. Participants will learn what the first houses looked like and how the Pilgrims fort changed throughout the century. Did you know that the lot where the house of Elder Brewster, the Pilgrims religious leader and a one-time post master in England, became the site of the Plymouth Post Office? Or that the house lot of John Billington, a man who disagreed with Captain Standishs order that all men serve in the Plymouth militia, was later the site of an army recruiting office? The discussion continues to everyday matters such as Plymouths court system, allotments of land and livestock.

Participants receive both a modern map and a historic reconstruction map of Plymouth so that they may see where the locations of houses and the fort were in what is now downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts.