400 Years Ago, This Mayflower Ship Arrived-- Part 1: Going to the New World

I saw one of those neat collector book/magazines in the local Jewel about the Mayflower and Pilgrims and then remembered those cancel culture folks want this gone because of what happened to the Indians afterwards.  I don't much like cancel culture folk anyway, so instead of burning it or protesting out in front of the store, I bought it.

I like these magazines and have been amassing a whole bunch of them.  They are generally just 100 pages long, with lots and lots of pictures, so it doesn't take too long to go through one.  These are the new coffee table books of this age I guess.

Sadly, the price of them keeps going up every year.  Now one will cost you between $13 and $15.

Anyway, since this year and month marks the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim arrival in the New World, I will be writing segments of the "Mayflower: Birth of America" book/magazine for the rest of the month.

The book magazine started off with a Pilgrim Timeline.

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SEPTEMBER 6--  The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England

NOVEMBER 9--  The Mayflower's passengers spot Cape Cod, considerably north of their intended Hudson River.

NOVEMBER 11--  The Mayflower rounds the tip of Cape Cod, drops anchor near present-day Provincetown, Massachusetts and the Mayflower Compact is signed.  The people spend the next few weeks exploring Cape Cod.

DECEMBER 16--  The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth Harbor

A Bit Late in the Year to Be Starting a Colony in My Books.  --CootPil

Buying Those Historical Items: George and Edgar

From Dec. 4, 2009, Yahoo! News.

A George Washington letter was sold at Christie's Auction for $3,218,000, a record for a letter by him. It was written in 1787 to his nephew Bushrod Washington where he argued for a ratification of the country's new Constitution. It was owned by Bushrod's descendants for more than 100 years.

This is a very rare document and at presale the estimate was that it would go for between $1.5 million and $2.5 million. The previous record for a Washington document was $834,500 in 2002.

A volume of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe, including "For Annie" which has 8 handwritten verses of sixteen went for $830,000.

A rare First Edition of his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems" went for $662,500. Only 12 copies of the 40 page volume published in 1827 are known to exist.

Someone Had Lots of Money. Must Be Big Oil Or An Investment Banker. --Cooter

Lincoln Document Goes for $3.4 Million

Sotheby's auctioned off Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reply to the Little People's Petition for $3.4 million smackeroos. Also, there were another 20 Lincoln documents among the 111 items in the lot.

Also, of interest, were several pages from George Washington's diary, correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, a rare document signed by both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, 10 Robert E. Lee documents, and items from John Brown, Samuel Clemmens, and Orville Wright.

I couldn't figure out if the $3.4 million was for all 111 items, or just for the Lincoln paper. Plus, was this all from one person's collection, or from many? Plus, where did they get that much money to build a collection like this if it was just one person's?

Who Has That Much Dough in these Recession Days to Afford This? Probably Big Oil Execs. --Da Coot