October 11, 2025 • 1 min
Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan. Rich Richard A.
Stone has written a terrific book about something very close
to home. It's called Project Mayflower, Building and sailing a
seventeenth century replica. As most of us know, it's called
the Mayflower two, a replica of the ship that in
sixteen twenty brought Pilgrims to the New World, visited by
millions yearly and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(00:23):
But the origins of Project Mayflower begin in the nineteen fifties,
inspired not by an American but by a British World
War II vet who took on what seemed an impossible
task to build a historically accurate replica and then sailor
across the Atlantic, just as the Pilgrims did, ultimately presenting
the ship as a gesture of thanks to the United
States Britain's wartime Ally. This is the story of struggle
(00:44):
as well as adventure, get the funding to find the crew,
even to negotiate the sailing during a time of political
strife in the Middle East. A magnificent story about an
American symbol and a gift from Great Britain. Project Mayflower
by Richard A. Stone, the book Club. W'za z, Boston's
news radio
Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan. Rich Richard A.
Stone has written a terrific book about something very close
to home. It's called Project Mayflower, Building and sailing a
seventeenth century replica. As most of us know, it's called
the Mayflower two, a replica of the ship that in
sixteen twenty brought Pilgrims to the New World, visited by
millions yearly and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(00:23):
But the origins of Project Mayflower begin in the nineteen fifties,
inspired not by an American but by a British World
War II vet who took on what seemed an impossible
task to build a historically accurate replica and then sailor
across the Atlantic, just as the Pilgrims did, ultimately presenting
the ship as a gesture of thanks to the United
States Britain's wartime Ally. This is the story of struggle
(00:44):
as well as adventure, get the funding to find the crew,
even to negotiate the sailing during a time of political
strife in the Middle East. A magnificent story about an
American symbol and a gift from Great Britain. Project Mayflower
by Richard A. Stone, the book Club. W'za z, Boston's
news radio
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