Interwoven

Interwoven

Interwoven is a podcast from Plimoth Patuxet Museums, the Nation’s premier living history museum. In each episode, we explore the ways stories weave through generations, communities and cultures to inform our contemporary lives. Rooted deep in the 17th century, Interwoven expands beyond the relationships between the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims to discuss larger cross-cultural interactions of the varied people who lived along these shores of change. To learn more about Plimoth Patuxet Museums visit www.plimoth.org.

Episodes

November 20, 2023 1 min
Text of the March 1621 alliance made between Plymouth Colony and the Pokanoket Wampanoag sachem Ousemequin (Massasoit) read aloud in modern, American English dialects.
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Text of the March 1621 alliance made between Plymouth Colony and the Pokanoket Wampanoag sachem Ousemequin (Massasoit) read aloud in 17th-century English dialects.
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Eye witness account of 1621 harvest celebration (Modern English) by Plimoth Patuxet Museums
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Eye Witness Account of 1621 harvest celebration read aloud in 17th-century English dialects.
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January 13, 2021 47 mins
Archaeologist and Museum Gardener, Dr. Fred Dunford, discusses with Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow the transformation of Indigenous and English agricultural practices and the role archaeology plays in helping us better understand farming and gardening from different historic and cultural perspectives. This episode was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommen...
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November 11, 2020 45 mins
Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow and Plimoth's Senior Historian, Richard Pickering, delve into New York Times writer and bestselling author David Brooks’ newest book, The Second Mountain: A Quest for a Moral Life to explore how ideas of social contract applied to 17th-century communities and how they influenced the Mayflower Compact.
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As our society reexamines the meaning of gender for a new generation, Malka Benjamin and Kerri Helme discuss what it meant to be a woman in English and Wampanoag societies 400 years. Please be advised that the conversation includes information about female menstruation, sex, pregnancy, miscarriage, sexual assault, and childbirth.
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Dr. David Landon and host, Hilary Goodnow, discuss the origins of Historical Archaeology at Plimoth Plantation and the legacy of archaeologist Dr. James Deetz being carried forward by Project 400 - a collaboration between the University of Massachusetts Boston, Plimoth Plantation, and the Town of Plymouth to uncover and explore the 17th century communities of Plimoth and Patuxet.
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Host Hilary Goodnow chats with Plimoth Plantation Food Historian Kathleen Wall about 17th-century drink from the brewing of beer to the distilling of spirits and much more. Sources discussed: Gervase Markham (1568-1637), The English Housewife: Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman. ed. Michael Best. McGill-Queens University Press, 1986.
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Join Deputy Executive Director Richard Pickering for an exploration of William Brewster's formative years in the court of Elizabeth I including his relationship with Secretary of State Sir William Davison and their role in the downfall and execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
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You may be familiar with some of the more famous Plymouth Colony names like William Bradford, William Brewster, or Miles Standish; but few know much about Isaac Allerton - an enigmatic man who rose to prominence in Plymouth, Marblehead, New Haven, and New Netherlands between 1620 and 1659. In this episode, host Hilary Goodnow spoke with historians David Furlow and Lisa Pennington who are working to unravel the mystery of Isaac Al...
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April 30, 2018 28 mins
The Interwoven team is back at Mayflower II to catch up with Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations for Plimoth Plantation and Matt Barnes, lead shipwright on the Mayflower II Restoration Project at Mystic Seaport's Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. They shared exciting updates on the restoration process that have occurred since our last interview in March 2017 and introduced us to some of the project's a...
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Sixty years ago, the Mayflower II arrived in Plymouth Harbor after a 55-day sea voyage. She was greeted by a crowd of tens of thousands of spectators. One spectator was Linda Cabot Black who saw the ship first in Provincetown then drove all the way to Plymouth to see her again. In this special soundbite from Interwoven, Ms. Black shares her Mayflower Memories with Plimoth Plantation staff.
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​What did it take to make a house a home in early Plymouth Colony? Dr. Kathryn Ness, Plimoth Plantation's Curator of Collections, takes listeners behind the scenes to share how each house in the 17th-Century English Village is curated to reflect the family that lived there and the global economy that fueled their world.
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What does it mean to be Native/Indian/indigenous/first people in 2017? For this new series of conversations with a diverse group of Native political, educational, and cultural leaders from across the country, ​​Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow spoke with Elaine Yellow Horse, a tribal prosecutor for the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota​,​ about the importance of community, tradition, and restorative justice.
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What does it mean to be Native/Indian/indigenous/first people in 2017? As the first in a series of conversations with a diverse group of Native political, educational, and cultural leaders from across the country, Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow talks with Dr. Cedric Woods (Lumbee), Trustee of Plimoth Plantation and ​the ​Founding Director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies at University of Massachusetts, Bosto...
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During its sail In 1957, when Mayflower II neared Plymouth, Massachusetts, a US Navy blimp hovered above taking pictures. The photographer aboard the blimp was Clarence Goguen. Mr. Goguen visited with Plimoth Plantation staff to share his one-of-a-kind story.
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Podcast host Hilary Goodnow and Brown University's Dr. Linford Fisher explore the "spectrum of unfreedom" and the evolution of native enslavement across the 17th century through 3 historic characters: Tisquantum (Squanto), the son of Metacomet (King Philip), and Tituba.
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March 8, 2017 33 mins
Podcast host Hilary Goodnow talks with Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations at Plimoth Plantation, about the on-going restoration of Mayflower II. Whit details aspects of the wooden boat restoration process and shares some of the challenges and joys he's encountered along the way. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for America grant number MA-30-16-...
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January 17, 2017 38 mins
Host Hilary Goodnow, takes listeners behind the scenes at Plimoth Plantation’s newest living history exhibit - the Plimoth Grist Mill! Millers Kim VanWormer and Matt Tavares discuss the history, science and technology of grain milling in the 17th century and share their passions for heirloom grains, green energy, and historic trades.
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