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Plymouth wasn’t the very first or the biggest or most successful of the English settlements.
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In an article in last winter season’s Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Dr. John Booss of the Yale University School of Medicine argued that the “charming timing” of the Pilgrims’ arrival in the wake of a fatal epidemic was one of the essential aspects in the colony’s success.
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In August, Native descendants from all over New England and beyond were set to assemble on Plymouth– to dance and drum around a ritualistic fire, march through the town, and make offerings of tobacco and sage in tribute to Massasoit and King Philip.
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