The ferry slipway and the village of Baile Mor on the enchanting, magical, island of Iona, just off the south-west tip of the Isle of Mull. Pilgrims have been coming here for nearly fourteen centuries and tourists for three. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/iona/index.html
Today being #Thanksgiving, we can enjoy being treated to a host of historical commentaries & corrections
Gifted for you from behind the paywall, this important piece from 2021
Thanksgiving anniversary: Wampanoag Indians regret helping Pilgrims 400 years ago: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 Washington Post
Teaching about #Thanksgiving & the #Pilgrims & #Puritans epitomizes the goals @AHAHistorians set for #history students, e.g. learning to see people of the past as both like us & very different, the latter demanding an act of sensitive imagination
So absurd it almost seems true… “AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT PARKING. THE PILGRIMS CAME HERE IN SEARCH OF PARKING. THEN SETTLERS MOVED WEST IN SEARCH OF MORE PARKING.” #parking#America#Pilgrims#UrbanPlanning#cars