Clash of Cultures: Saints and Strangers Walking Tour with Sean Baggett (Hull)

Join us for a journey through a pivotal chapter in our shared American story: this time focusing on the Pilgrims — those first Europeans who chose to risk everything to settle on these shores.

Who were they really? What drove them to leave their homeland and embark on such a perilous voyage? What beliefs, fears, and hopes sustained them through hunger, illness, and loss?

We’ll explore their motivations, their faith, and the myths and realities of their early years in Plymouth Colony. What happens when the bonds of friendship, compassion and tolerance are allowed to strain and ultimately break. From their precarious first winter, through their uneasy alliances and finally, total war and genocide. We’ll see how the first 50 years of Plymouth Colony set into motion the approach taken with the First Peoples for the next 400 years and the lessons that continue to teach us that are just as meaningful today.

This lecture will look beyond the simplified Thanksgiving tales to uncover the Pilgrims’ true struggles, aspirations, and contradictions. Let us step outside of the mythology and meet them as they were: saints to some, strangers to many, and human in all their complexity.

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