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LAist is on a road trip around the country, so you dont have to.
There's a reason Plymouth Rock is hard to find. There's a reason why most of the signs off the highway lead you to the Plimouth Plantation, a living museum where "real native Americans" and white folk recreate what life was like when the pilgrims arrived (for the low price of $24 for adults, $21 for seniors, and $14 for kids under 13). And there's a reason why you don't see a lot of tshirts that say, "My parents went to Plymouth Rock and all I got was this t-shirt."
It's because the people of Plymouth are ashamed by their rock, and they should be. It's small, it's dumb, it's in a bizarre little cage within a grand columned structure.
Sometimes size does matter and sometimes presentation is everything, and pardon our French but we've seen turds bigger than Plymouth rock, which is an accurate way to describe this pathetic piece of so-called history.
Even according to the Pilgrim Hall Museum, which resides a few blocks from the Rock, there was no mention of this thing in the first two accounts of the pilgrims landing in New England; indeed, it was only believed to be of any importance over 100 years after the pilgrims arrived, and only because a crazy old man said it was important.
Our advice is to avoid this town and focus on the chowdah on the cahd.
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God, you are a sad, petty little man.
As a direct Mayflower pilgrim descendant I have to completely agree. Plymouth Rock? Really? The settlement itself might have some historical significance, but some lame little boulder in the ground... No.
I have to agree... I saw Plymouth Rock on New Years' Eve, 1997 with a friend from Boston and was similarly underwhelmed. The rest of the historical stuff on that trip? Great! Plymouth Rock? Not so great. The site would be better without the rock to underwhelm people, with just a sign or some displays showing people where the Pilgrims landed. There's no reason to venerate one particular boulder sitting on the beach.
Gee, when people said Plymouth rock I always thought more along the lines of Gibraltar... I wonder why they make such a big deal out of it in elementary schools?
I think they presented it as a big ol' boulder in both Bugs Bunny and the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, thus our collective misconstruance.
Ahh, gotta love the feeble SNL-quality attempt at a "New England" accent...
Chowdah on the cahd?
If you meant "Chowder on Cape Cod", it's "chowdah down the Cape" or "chowdah on the Cape"...no one ever calls it "The Cod"...a "cahd" is what you send your mom on mother's day or what you get from a blackjack dealer.
Happy travels!
I was also underwhelmed when I saw it. Hunter Cashdollar Arlington
times have changed,
and we've often
rewound the clock,
since the puritans
got a shock,
when they landed
on plymouth rock.
if today,
any shock they
should try to stem,
‘stead of landing on
plymouth rock,
plymouth rock
would land on them.
in olden days a
glimpse of stocking
was looked on as
something shocking,
but now,
god knows,
anything goes.