{"id":1099,"date":"2012-11-21T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2012-11-21T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:54:08","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-from-the-viking-horde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2012\/11\/21\/happy-thanksgiving-from-the-viking-horde\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving from the Viking horde"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The explorers who came before the Pilgrims, Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, 1921. Photo by E.P. McLaughlin, Plymouth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Staged to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing, the 1921 \u00a0Pageant\u00a0of the Pilgrim Spirit<\/em>\u00a0was a sprawling, epic production. \u00a0Among its stranger elements — ranking alongside William Bradford’s premonition of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and the Prologue and Finale spoken by \u00a0“The Voice of the Rock” — has to be the appearance of the Norsemen.<\/p>\n

The pageant program dates the appearance of these early visitors in Plymouth to about 1000 AD, and describes the performance \u00a0as “played in pantomime to music.” \u00a0 Only one role is specifically named — Thorwald\u00a0played by John Delano — but 46 men from Kingston, Duxbury, Plymouth and Marshfield are \u00a0named as players in this scene, including Kingston’s Town Clerk of many years George Cushman.<\/p>\n

Given the Norsemen’s spectacular outfits, it seems a shame that Plymouth Rock got more lines.<\/p>\n

The program is online in full \u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Jones River Village Historical Society Collection (photo); Vertical Files: “The Pilgrim Spirit” \u00a0(program).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staged to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing, the 1921 \u00a0Pageant\u00a0of the Pilgrim Spirit\u00a0was a sprawling, epic production. \u00a0Among its stranger elements — ranking alongside William Bradford’s premonition of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and the Prologue and Finale spoken by \u00a0“The Voice of the Rock” — has to be the appearance of … <\/p>\n

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