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Episode 189: New England Granite

the memory palace

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Plymouth Rock - A Symbol of Freedom

Historians debate whether thomas founce's memory there at 95 was accurate and whether that specific rock, or any rock for that matter, played any particular role in the pilgrim's arrival. But it is clear that it didn't hold any real significance, practical or sentimental, to the pilgrims themselves because they basically wrote everything down and no one ever mentioned it. So the thing that makes this rock in plymouth plymouth rock is poetry. There was something moving about this 95 year old man being moved. He bedewed it with his tears and bid it an everlasting adieu. The top just popped off like they were splitting a muffin with the co worker at the free continental breakfast

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