Mayflower Tales

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 8 p.m.

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Guest:\\xa0Martyn Whittock, author of "Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience"
The stories of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony have shaped the legend of the founding of America.\\xa0We sort out fact from fiction in the stories of William Bradford, Tisquantum, Mary Chilton, John Howland, and, not to be missed, the romance of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.\\xa0
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Stephen Hopkins
Guest:\\xa0Jonathan Mack, attorney,\\xa0official member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, and author of "A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, The Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth"
Jonathan Mack shares the incredible story of his little-known ancestor. Distinguished by his knowledge of Native American cultures, Stephen Hopkins played a vital role in bridging the gap between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. One of his early exploits even inspired Shakespeare.'