Cobblestone articles from September 2001

Cobblestone archives from September 2001

Editor's Note.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Welcome." Imagine the surprise of the Pilgrims when their first meeting with American Indians in 1621 was this friendly greeting. These first European settlers in New England did not know what to expect from the native people. Instead of being...

Norembega.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... "These people are ill affected towards the English, by reason of one [Thomas] Hunt, a master of a ship, who deceived the people, and got them under color of trucking [trading] with them, twenty out of this very place where we inhabit,... and...

COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES.(interaction of earliest Europeans in America with native peoples)
September 1, 2001... "He saluted us in English, and bade us welcome, for he had learned some broken English among the Englishmen that came to fish at Monchiggon, and knew by name the most of the captains, commanders, and master that usually come.... We questioned...

Breaking Away.(founding of New Plymouth Colony)
September 1, 2001... "... by break of the day we espied land which we deemed to be Cape Cod.... And the appearance of if much comforted us, especially seeing so goodly a land, and wooded to the brink of the sea. It caused us to rejoice together, and praise God...

CAPE COD Landing.(New Plymouth Colony)
September 1, 2001... "And upon the 11th of November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good harbor and pleasant bay... [and] encompassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras, and other sweet wood.... There was the greatest store of...

SETTLING IN at Plymouth.(New Plymouth Colony)
September 1, 2001... December is not a good month to be working outdoors in New England, and the Pilgrims had plenty of work to do. On December 18, 1620, they went ashore at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts and "saw not an Indian nor an Indian house; only we...

ENDURING NAMES.(Indian place names in U.S.)
September 1, 2001... More than half of the states in America, as well as many rivers and landmarks, carry some version of their American Indian names. The first North American dwellers, the American Indians, did not name places after themselves, however. For the...

Samoset and Squanto.(American Indians who helped Plymouth Colony to survive)
September 1, 2001... Although the Pilgrims had seen American Indians at the outskirts of their settlement, it was not until March 16, 1621, that a tall Indian boldly walked into the town and said, "Welcome, welcome, Englishmen!" Imagine how astonished the Pilgrims...

Did You Know?
September 1, 2001... illustrated by Mike Philips Visitors can experience firsthand how the 17th-century Pilgrims and Wampanoaq Indians lived by visiting Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where history, is brought to life by reenactors. ...

Indian Pudding.
September 1, 2001... Corn, a grass, today can be turned into cereal, snacks, desserts, soaps, fuel, and beverages. Corn is the "gold of the Americas, and it has had a major impact on the world for many years. Corn was being farmed by the Wampanoag people for...

The New World Meets the Old World.
September 1, 2001... Before Squanto met and befriended the Pilgrims, he experienced some life-changing events. Kidnapped from his Massachusetts village of Patuxet and torn away from his family in 1605, Squanto spent nearly a decade in England in the cosmopolitan...

A REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIP.
September 1, 2001... It still is amazing to realize that the first meeting between Massasoit and the Pilgrims in the spring of 1621 resulted in a treaty that led to fifty years of peace. This lasting alliance was a sign, in part, that the English were terribly...

Trouble in Wessaguscus.(Colonial period in United States history)
September 1, 2001... Throughout the decades, there were various infractions by the English of the peace alliance with the Wampanoags. Many history books focus on the peaceful nature of the agreement between Massasoit and the Pilgrims, but the different incidents...

A DAY OF THANKSGIVING, A DAY OF MOURNING.(Colonial period in United States history)
September 1, 2001... The Pilgrims who survived the first year in the New World celebrated by holding a harvest feast in the fall of 1621. "Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together...

SHIFTING GROUND.(Colonial period in United States history)
September 1, 2001... A leader of the Wampanoags, the people with whom Squanto settled after his return from England, sold a large tract of land to the Pilgrims. However, the Wampanoags continued to hunt and fish on this land. This angered the Pilgrims, and they...

Brain Ticklers.(Colonial period in United States history)
September 1, 2001... Give your brain a little tickle to see how well you read and understood this issue on Samoset and Squanto. If you believe the answer to be false, give yourself the ultimate test and see whether you can explain why it is false. Answers below....

A Final Word.(Colonial period in United States history)
September 1, 2001... Their first encounter with the Wampanoag Indians was a positive one for the Pilgrims. How do you think the history books might read today if the Indians who originally approached the English had been unwelcoming and prepared to defend their...

Jamestown.(poem)(Poem)
September 1, 2001... J is for John Smith, a famous leader of this town. A is for the awful tragedies that nearly brought the settlers down. M is for the months and months they had spent on the ship. E is for the...

The Pilgrims Meet Squanto.(poem)(Poem)
September 1, 2001... Along one day came Squanto, who walked so very pronto. He came into the settlement, then to the common house he went. The ones who missed him did so brood, but those who saw him brought him food. He...

Cliff Dwellers.(poem)(Poem)
September 1, 2001... Cliff dwellers lived long, long ago. Beans, squash, and corn are foods they would grow. There was much sorrow because the land was dry. But when the rain came down from the sky, the check dams they built...

Smoky.(poem)(Poem)
September 1, 2001... He stretches out and looks at me as if to say, "I'm big, don't you see?" I pick him up and pat his head and whisper softly, "It's time to be fed." He arches his back as I sit him down. ...

Leaves.(poem)(Poem)
September 1, 2001... Leaves. Dark red and orange -- the color of a bright copper penny. Crispy corn flakes floating in circles. Small tornadoes gracefully falling from the heavens above. Shaped like arrowheads the ...

Beyond the Window.(poem)(Poem)
September 1, 2001... Through a small rectangular window, I see a cold, wet, gloomy day. I notice the wind blowing through the leaves, as water hits the far-reaching branches. The trees sway in the wind, as the flower petals...

Dear Cobblestonians.
September 1, 2001... Dear Cobblestonians, In the nineteenth century, women began to make names for themselves as professional writers, and publications began to focus on topics geared toward women. One of the first successful women's magazines was Godey's...

Books to Read.
September 1, 2001... Squanto by Feenie Ziner (Hamden, Connecticut: Linnet Books, 1988) uses fictional dialogue (derived from information found in primary source documents) to tell the Indian man's story from his point of view. The book covers Squanto's life, from...

More Media.
September 1, 2001... Squanto and the First Thanksgiving, part of the American Heroes and Legends series, is a thirty-minute video that uses paintings, music, and narration to tell the story of the Indian who, after being sold into slavery in Spain, came back to...

On the Web.
September 1, 2001... www.plimoth.org and www. pilgrimhall.org are the Web sites for Plimoth Plantation and the Pilgrim Hall Museum (see below). pilgrims.net/plymouth/ is called "America's Homepage." From this official tour guide for Plymouth, Massachusetts,...

Places to Visit.
September 1, 2001... Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Research fields at this museum are dedicated to seventeenth-century English and American Indian history, with collections that include artifacts, furnishings, tools, and more. Re-creations of daily...