A short agreement by the Pilgrims and other colonists on board the Mayflower set in motion a system of government that ...

Just over four centuries ago, 102 men, women and children set sail on the Mayflower, a Virginia Company merchant ship from England bound for the New World. While the passengers had no idea what their ...

In total, the Mint will release five new quarters, a new dime and a new nickel, plus a collectable penny and half dollar, to celebrate America’s big 2-5-0, with each coin markin ...

The Mayflower Compact Quarter marks the first of the Mint’s semiquincentennial (SemiQ) coins, honoring the nation’s 250th ...

As you carve the turkey today and look around the table at your loved ones, there are important lessons you can teach both young and old about our American Thanksgiving holiday. When the Pilgrims ...

Part I was featured in the December 2020 issue. Go to saddlebagnotes.com to check out. Final arrangements were made, and two ships were acquired—the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Mayflower and ...

The U.S. Mint announced the new coin, the Mayflower Compact Quarter, was released Jan. 5. More coins coming out this year.

The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...

On the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, local descendants of the original Mayflower passengers help keep that mythical story alive. We should be thankful they do. They sat down together ...

As such, they are increasingly out of favor as Thanksgiving begins to suffer some of the erosion that has drastically diminished Columbus Day. Thanksgiving is too big a holiday to get dethroned, at ...

As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Thirteen generations later ...