The mayflower II sets sail return home to Boston
I'd it wrong that I feel very emotional over an antique ship? It has been in CT getting renovation and repairs done. And today, she sets sail to return back home to Boston / Plymouth
In time for the 400th anniversary of the original ship arriving here to begin what has now become American. The United States of America.
We have gone through as a country, so much turmoil, battles, wars. Industrial revolutions, separated from a mother country over the fact on taxes/ and being here to be free. They sent their outcasts and then our own state of liberty. LADY LIBERTY says "bring me your tired your poor..."
We are where dreams are built. Dreams are made. Yet this era we live in now, we are crumbling. We were able to join together when the world trade center / the twin towers fell crumbling down. Now look at us, falling apart because we need to stand together over a virus.
Alas, I am digressing and this is not what I wished this post to be about.
This ship, the mayflower. That is what I am here for today
If it was not for such a shop to have set sail and landed here.
My great uncle Earl Prentiss would not have been here, rest his soul. Then, my vast clan would be short the beautiful cousins that I cherish here today.
It may be just a ship to some
But it is also history to many others
History for a country that used to be all about hard working families, villages working together to survive. Outcasts looking to belong
I guess I'm nostalgic because I've always felt like an outcast all of my life. Yet, some how I belong in my own freakish little circle of fellow minded souls who don't mind my crazy ways of random thinking and bubbly attitude even in the darkest of times.
Welcome home mayflower II
May we all remember the past to learn from it and make ourselves individually better souls to then turn and make our communities better for our futures.
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https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/restored-mayflower-replica-set-return-plymouth/WFBVLDUXKVFMVCTXOL36PJSPQ4/
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In time for the 400th anniversary of the original ship arriving here to begin what has now become American. The United States of America.
We have gone through as a country, so much turmoil, battles, wars. Industrial revolutions, separated from a mother country over the fact on taxes/ and being here to be free. They sent their outcasts and then our own state of liberty. LADY LIBERTY says "bring me your tired your poor..."
We are where dreams are built. Dreams are made. Yet this era we live in now, we are crumbling. We were able to join together when the world trade center / the twin towers fell crumbling down. Now look at us, falling apart because we need to stand together over a virus.
Alas, I am digressing and this is not what I wished this post to be about.
This ship, the mayflower. That is what I am here for today
If it was not for such a shop to have set sail and landed here.
My great uncle Earl Prentiss would not have been here, rest his soul. Then, my vast clan would be short the beautiful cousins that I cherish here today.
It may be just a ship to some
But it is also history to many others
History for a country that used to be all about hard working families, villages working together to survive. Outcasts looking to belong
I guess I'm nostalgic because I've always felt like an outcast all of my life. Yet, some how I belong in my own freakish little circle of fellow minded souls who don't mind my crazy ways of random thinking and bubbly attitude even in the darkest of times.
Welcome home mayflower II
May we all remember the past to learn from it and make ourselves individually better souls to then turn and make our communities better for our futures.
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https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/restored-mayflower-replica-set-return-plymouth/WFBVLDUXKVFMVCTXOL36PJSPQ4/
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — A replica of the original Mayflower ship that brought the Pilgrims to America 400 years ago this year is returning home following extensive renovations.
The Mayflower II is slated to complete the final leg of its journey on Monday when it docks at Pilgrim Memorial State Park in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The 64-year-old historic reproduction is also expected to travel from New Bedford to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne this weekend.
The ship began the slow return home last month after spending the last three years in Mystic, Connecticut, getting $11.2 million worth of renovations.
It stopped in New London, Connecticut, but had to scrub a planned visit to Newport, Rhode Island this week because of new travel restrictions required of people who visit the state
The ship also made an unscheduled stop at New Bedford's State Pier to shelter during Tropical Storm Isaias. A cruise into Boston Harbor alongside the USS Constitution was previously cancelled because of the pandemic.
The original plan had called for a celebratory departure in late April with several stops at southern New England ports before a May arrival.
The Mayflower II has been a major tourist attraction and educational tool since it arrived in Plymouth as a gift from England in 1957.
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