The Plymouth Rock

Plymouth rock is used as door stops, paper weights on mantels and turned to reliquaries. What was once a local point of pride was being woven into the national story. In the 18 eighties when the pilgrim story fully enshrined as one of the pillars of capital h american history,. thanksgiving was a national holiday. The janicide and forced removal of indigenous peoples in the west was nearly complete. They built an elabora victorian canopy to protect the rock from relic hunters and sea gulls. And they moved the rock again, kept in one piece this time put it back there at the water's edge, more or less where it was when thomas f