We went to visit Plimouth Plantation today. Seemed appropriate considering the time of year. It's divided into a Wampanoag (the original inhabitants of southern Massachusets) and English colonist village. In the Wampanoag village, they are dressed in traditional clothing, however they are not 'playing' people from 1600's so that visitors can ask about modern life as well as what it was like 'back in the day'. The colonists are playing parts, and you could ask them questions about their daily lives and they will answer as people from 1627 Plimouth. The little village had several houses, each with a vegetable garden, a big main building that looked like a meeting house, and a beautiful view of the bay. Austin and I are at what appears to be a bread baking oven. The exhibits in the museum are geared towards teaching visitors that the myths that we learned in school about the first Thanksgiving are not completely accurate. Both the English and the native people were cautious around each other.
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