Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)

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Music

• Musica Seqenza play Schreza Infida
• Frederico Durand plas Lluvia de Estrellas
• The Martin Hayes Quintet plays The Boy in the Gap
• East Forest by Provenance
• There's a bit of Madame Ovary from Bensi and Jurriaans and Christine
• It finishes on Three Dances: II. Pavane from Chromo Tuba Quartet

Notes

• Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday by James W. Baker and Peter J. Gomes sent me first down a Charlotte Mitchell rabbit hole.
• History of Plymouth, Norfolk, and Barnstable Counties, Massachusetts by Elroy S. Thompson
• History of the Town of Lakeville, 1852-1952 by Gladys De Maranville (which you probably own all ready but, here it is anyway).
• Indian History, Genealogy, Pertaining to the Good Sachem, Massasoit and his Descendants by Ebenezer Weaver Pierce.
• The great, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, by Jill Lepore.
• Massasoit of the Wamponoags: With Commentary on the Indian Character, by Alvin Gardner Weeks
• "Baby Pilgrims, Sturdy Forefathers, and One Hundred Percent Americanism: the Mayflower Tercentenary of 1920," by Christine Arnold-Lourie in the Massachusetts Historical Review.
• "The Daughter of a King," by Mike Maddigan in Southcoast Today.
• "The Last of the Wamponoags," by Charles T. Scott in New England Magazine, vol. 33.
• I also looked at a number of news paper articles, most found at Newspapers.com through the expected search terms.

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