"On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world"--

Recounts how the Pilgrims came to the United States on the Mayflower, started the colony of New Plymouth, and endured a horrible first winter.

Briefly describes what life was like for the Pilgrims who came to America in the seventeenth century.

Text and photographs follow a six-year-old Pilgrim boy through a busy day during the spring harvest in 1627: doing chores, getting to know his Wampanoag Indian neighbors, and spending time with his family.

Explores the life of Tapenum, a Wampanoag Indian boy in the 1620s.