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We will have a Mayflower Halloween Pumpkin Trail around town. Can you help the Pilgrims search for discover the hidden pumpkins using pictures in shop windows around town and solve the Halloween riddle?This is a FREE event. You will be ab...
Mayflower: Halloween Pumpkin Trail
We will have a Mayflower Halloween Pumpkin Trail around town. Can you help the Pilgrims search for discover the hidden pumpkins using pictures in shop windows around town and solve the Halloween riddle?
This is a FREE event. You will be able to download your trail sheet and instructions from our website from Wednesday 21 October. All ages welcome!
Correct entries go into a prize draw to win a £20 Harleston Voucher. Entry closes at 14:00 Saturday 31 October.
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Halloween, fancy dress, fun games for the children and scary historic walks through the eerie times that Harleston has been through, be prepared to get a shock.
Halloween
Halloween, fancy dress, fun games for the children and scary historic walks through the eerie times that Harleston has been through, be prepared to get a shock.
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Our Mayflower lecture series continues with a presentation by Rita Cruise O'Brien, Mayflower historian and author. The Mayflower and the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ began to be held in reverence in New England by the time of the 2...
Mayflower Lecture Online: The Making of America’s Foundation Myth
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Our Mayflower lecture series continues with a presentation by Rita Cruise O'Brien, Mayflower historian and author. The Mayflower and the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ began to be held in reverence in New England by the time of the 200th anniversary of the arrival in 1820. The fraught and troubled beginnings of the Plymouth settlement were re-invented by politicians, poets, pastors and artists, notably John Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster. Plymouth Rock became a national shrine and the Mayflower Compact, the foundation stone of American democracy. The earlier Virginia Colony was swept aside; the emblem of proud Southern planters, denied. The story became America’s foundation myth, used in the rhetoric of ‘freedom versus slavery’ in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
Rita Cruise O'Brien, is a historian and published author. Rita has had appointments at the London School of Economics, Sussex University and London Business School, and international consulting assignments for the UN and UK government.
This event will be held at the prestigeous London Guildhall Library as part of their events programme. Rita was one of our planned guest speakers in the original 'Mayflower 400 in Harleston' programme and has invited us to join her online presentation. We hope to welsome Rita to a future Mayflower presentaion on 2021.
This is a FREE event but you must register.
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Mayflower Lecture Online: Redenhall Church
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Centuries apart but with Waveney Valley Connections. Local speaker Geoff Doggett, a lifelong sailor and wooden boat enthusiast, investigates the similarities between the original and replica Mayflowers. He touches on their navigation and vo...
Mayflower Lecture Online: The Two Mayflowers (TBC)
Centuries apart but with Waveney Valley Connections. Local speaker Geoff Doggett, a lifelong sailor and wooden boat enthusiast, investigates the similarities between the original and replica Mayflowers. He touches on their navigation and voyages in a way not heard before and brings in some local heritage to the ships’ construction.
Tickets £5 per person (£4 concessions) and can be reserved at (pre-booking recommended) - or can be purchased at the door.
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