How Plimoth Patuxet gets Living History right | Experiencing History? | Episode 4

On November 16, 2019, Erin visited Plimoth Patuxet (then Plimoth Plantation), a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This museum succeeds in many areas where other living history museums fail--Erin considers why Plimoth Patuxet does better and how the people behind this experience continue to improve the history presented.
🎬 Footage courtesy of Graham Christie.
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Historia Nostra is written, produced, and created by Erin Isaac (PhD student in History, Western University). In our Experiencing History series, Erin visits museums and heritage sites across North America to review how history is taught on site.
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📚 Further Reading:
Plimoth Patuxet's website: www.plimoth.org/
Nancy Koppelman, "A Colonial 'Living History' Museum Addresses Colonialism:
Plimoth Plantation in the 21st Century," nativecases.evergreen.edu/site...
Theresa Machemer, "Massachusetts’ Plimoth Plantation Will Change Its Name," www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
Stephen Eddy Snow, Performing the Pilgrims: A Study of Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth Plantation (University Press of Mississippi, 1993). books.google.ca/books?id=RbHQ...
Scott Magelssen, "Recreation and Re-Creation: On-Site Historical Reenactment
as Historiographic Operation at Plimoth Plantation," Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Fall 2002): core.ac.uk/download/pdf/23588...

[@dylansmith5469]

Hi, I’m actually the young Native interpreter you spoke to in this video! Wanted to say thank you for the footage! Although I don’t work at the museum anymore, I always love the videos and pictures that I can find, brings back very fond memories ☺️.

[@HistoriaNostratube]

Dylan! Thank you so much. I’m so glad you found my little channel! You were an excellent interpreter. Glad you look back fondly.

[@heatherp8903]

Thank you so much for making this video. My son is 8 years old, and I have been reading the "Rush Revere" Books to him As I teach him American history. I have been cross referencing some of the historical names in the book to videos I find on the internet, and found this extremely informative. I would actually really love to travel to this area to see this living museum myself!

[@Mario-cv5el]

I love going to Plymouth Plantation

[@khaledadams4329]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you.

[@FlyTyer1948]

Very well done.

[@machsolid6402]

I was born a few towns over and I’ve always been here and it’s still Plymouth plantation and it’s pronounced paw tux et like it always has been.

[@FallonBurner]

Hi Erin! I love your thorough analysis of the Plimouth Patuxet site. It has been many years since I've been there, and I didn't have a lot of time to explore last time I was there, so this was a nice trip down memory lane for me. While there are many similarities to what's being done at the Jamestown site, Plymouth seems to be doing a much better job with Native representation and educating the public in a more inclusive way. I really appreciated the fact that you showed some of their interpretive panels, and pointed out the physical pathway and distance between the Wampanoag village and the English village, which really allows for a change of headspace between the 2 sites, as is appropriate. I love this channel!

[@HistoriaNostratube]

Hi Fallon, thanks so much! This is definitely a site that lands on my “top ten” list for museums I’ve visited. I really agree with you that they’ve done a better job than other museums, specifically Jamestown, with their Indigenous history site.

[@sharonhearne5014]

I visited the site several years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. My traveling companion and I met a couple visiting the site from England and we have become good friends as a result. It was very informative and charming.

[@321kdebtgoodbye6]

When's the best time to go?

[@Dartkitten]

Ive been their twice, both at the end of june, both were hot. It depends on when you want to go, i dont think theyd be open if its rainning or snow/cold.

[@lusolad]

I dont think the " interpreters " at the native site do much research but might be told what to say?
Just because someone says they are native doesnt mean they have much accurate information on period culture.

[@anbercoburn1665]

Not quite what I expected.

[@dobermanpac1064]

Too bad the “players” residents no longer speak in old English.