Our Trip to Plymouth:  Two years ago, Vicki and I went to Plymouth (along with several other places in the northeast).  Anyway, we did not go during the tourist season so the town was very quiet.  We stopped at the tourist center and I asked if there was anyone who could give us a historical tour.  They told me to call the lady who leads the ghost tours.  So, I called her.  Turns out, she was estatic because she has a masters degree in early American history and has written a book on the Pilgrims, but all the tourist ever want are the ghost tours.  She gave us a private tour that was almost two hours.  I thought I would share some of things that I learned, which I think are interesting and everyone else may roll their eyes.  First, there are direct descendants of the Pilgrams who still live in Plymouth even though the majority of the Pilgrim relatives moved to Boston in the 1700's.  Second, there is no direct evidence that Plymouth Rock is real.  However, a grandson of one of the Pilgrims remembered his grandfather talking about stepping on a rock when they came ashore.  Shortly before he died, he pointed out the rock that he thought he remembered his grandfather had shown him as a child.  Third, the Pilgrims and Native Americans lived in peace and they asked permission to live there.  The aggression did not come until later when people started coming for more economic reasons.  Fourth, and this is a good one, the second and third generations of the Pilgrims all went to the same Congregational Church (it is in the same spot but the orginial structure has long since been gone).  Anyway, the church decided to hire a minister who graduated from Harvard.  Many in the church felt that he was too liberal in his theology (it was a liberal strain coming out of Harvard's Divinity School that ultimately did hurt the Congregational Church and led to the formation of the Unitarian Church).  Anyway, there was a vote to hire him and it was very close.  The people who voted against him decided to leave and start their own church across the street, which they did.  They constructed a sign that reads "We kept the faith, they kept the furniture."  The churches to this day are right next to each other.  The sign is still there.  Happy Thanksgiving!