While in New England we spent a morning in Plymouth, Massachusetts (state 28). We visited Plymouth Rock and then the Pilgrim Hall Museum. The kids love it when museums have scavenger hunts, and the Pilgrim Hall Museum had a good one. The kids spent there time there fact-finding so that they could receive a prize. I had another mission. My cousin Pam does genealogy and she can trace our family back to a father/daughter pair, Stephen and Constance Hopkins on the Mayflower. If the research is accurate, Constance is my 11x great grandmother, and Stephen is my 12x great grandfather. One of the artifacts at the museum is a beaver hat attributed to Constance Hopkins, so I was particularly keen to see it. They had many other interesting items on display at the museum including a piece of the Plymouth Rock that you could touch. I enjoyed this opportunity to learn about the history of our country and our personal family history.
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