Hey Everyone,

Its Tim Turner again the Manager of the Wampanoag Program here at Plimoth Plantation. I just want to tell you to look for some video Blogs on Thanksgiving comming soon. I will interview one of the Pilgrims in the Village and ask them about Thanksgiving and one of our Wampanoag staff members in the Homesite about Thanksgiving too.

I am also going to give you a tour of our exzibit here at Plimoth Plantation thats is on Thanksgiving too. This exzibit go’s into the History of Thanksgiving and how it became to be the holaday we know today. The exzibit will give you a better understanding of the real Thanksgiving and not the Myth’s that we may know about today.

I look forward to bring this to you soon so Please keep visiting the blog .

Thank You!
Timothy Turner

Bob at the Wampanoag Homesite

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to show you how well the garden looks today.  Looks great to me what about you ? make a comment at the end of the blog let me know what you think.  

We planted the corn on the weekend of May 25th and ran in to a little problem, and I mean little ,Chipmunks ate all of the seeds after we went home for the day.  Then the girls planted again, and it rained off and on for the next two weeks, so the seed roted in the ground and they had to plant again. 

This is how the garden looks like after the third planting with some time to grow .  I want to thanks the girls for all of your determination and hard work in the garden nice job !  The corn got a hand high and then they planted beans and squash,water melon,sunflowers and pumpkins too. 

 We have been picking  green corn, green beans and summer squash and using it in our food we cook in the homesite.  There is nothing like eating food you grew and how fresh it tastes mm mm good.

Well let me leave you with some pictures (click on read more of post) then make a comment on this blog by clicking on comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks see ya!

Hello Everyone,

I have for awhile wanted to talk about this because most visitors to the museum might of missed this.  If you walk down our new path way to the Wampanoag Homesite you will see this group of stone’s at the turn to the homesite and you might walk right by with out a thought , but these stones are very important and are their for a reason. 

This is a gathering circle and would of been a meditative spot for Native people and a place to rest for them too.  These stones are placed in a the four cardinal directions north, south,east and west.   The four cardinal directions had meaning to Indigenous people then and today. 

Their is a large white stone and it faces the east.  That is quartz stone.  The Wampanoag are the people of the east and quartz was a stone they used a lot here in the east.

I see lots of visitor’s sitting here and that’s great,  but i don’t think they know why this was here ,  I hope they know now.  It  is a great spot to rest.

I used a guide that plimoth plantation had made up to help  me with this post,  it’s called” voice of the land “  thank you to those who helped write this.

hope you visit us soon!

Tim

Hey everyone,

I don’t know  if you can tell in this picture but Alex is pregnant, she was 6 months pregnant at that time, that’s Dylan with her.  If you also visited Plimoth Plantation you might of seen her in the homesite.  I am very happy to report to all of you, that Alex had a baby boy on 8/19/09 at 9 :53 pm, he is 7lb 2 oz and 20 inches long and everyone is doing  just  fine.  Congratulation’s Alex and Dylan on the birth of your first child we at Plimoth are very happy for you.  I cant wait to see all of them.  Thanks everyone good luck Alex and Dylan.

Thanks

Tim

Here’s a boat we made in the traditional way on the Wampanoag Homesite.  Thank you Hartman and Jonathan for your work on this project.  This is a  boat we worked on by working 24 hours a day till it was done.   We don’t do this today all the time at the museum.  This is  the way we would of done this in the 1600′s.   We did this by burning the tree’s down and than burning them out.  This boat was made out of pine, but we also made the out of chestnut and oak too.  This boat was made in  4 and a half days burnig the whole leight at one time 24 hours a day.     We use fire alot in the 17th century, we used fire to burn the wood to leight and to hollow wood out too.   I have made lots of boats with fire here at plimoth plantation.  I have worked at Plimoth Plantation now for 20 years now and we make 2 boats a year every vear .   When the boats are done we sell them to museums and sometime we put them in the river  for us to use too.

Thanks

Tim

I wanted to show you the progress we have made on the Neeswetu so here go’s hope you like what I wrote.

I guess I should first tell you everything we do on the site is done slowly.  We do this so as many visitors can see it as possible because we don’t do a lot of these things every year.   We only  building houses every 3 to 5 years.

We have finished the top of the house, what we call the cap, witch is the very top of the house.   We are now working on the ends of the neeswetu and will be the last step in roofing the house.

This house will have flat ends not round like some of the other houses on the homesite.   The bark we are using is Popular bark and today, we go to Waldorf  Maryland to get big sheets of bark today to a saw mill that select cuts in a forest that has 100 year old trees.

I have posted some picture below click on read the rest of the post blow to see them.  I also would like you to comment on the blog click comment and leave me your comment and I will answer you.

I thought I might talk about food this time.   We have not talked about food before,  just a little on the strawberrry thanksgiving post.   The summer for the Wampanoag would of been all about fish and shellfish for food.  At This time of year you would of had just a little corn for seed left,  and you would of used that seed for planting.

This picture has a striped bass roasting over the fire in the homesite.  Fish and shellfish would of been something you ate alot of in the summer time.  This fish is roasting on a spit or a sharp stick over the fire.

We could of  made a big fire and spread out the coal’s and raped the striped bass with clay and let it dry, then bake the fish in clay on the coals too, mm so good done this way!.

Shell fish would of been smoked to save it for winter time.  In the winter you would of moved in land away from the ocean and smokeing shell fish would keep it all winter long.

That’s a little about food I will post more about food as we go here hope this gives you a little look at food, I promiss more to come on this.

thanks

Tim