In Their Own Words
Four recordings in which people from Plimoth Patuxet Museums tell this history themselves. No amount of careful text can substitute for hearing where a person pauses, where they hesitate, and which word they lean on.
If you only have time for one: the first ten minutes of the first talk.
400 Years Ago: A Look Back at Winter 1621
Tom Begley, Plimoth Patuxet Museums · 53:26unlisted on YouTube
The first winter after the landing: of the 102 who sailed, about half did not survive it. This is the one talk he gives alone from start to finish, with no second voice — the truest sample of how he paces a story. Note: a separate talk of the same title was given by Richard Pickering and covers late 1621 instead.
GBH — Ask The Expert: The Real Thanksgiving Story
Tom Begley, Plimoth Patuxet Museums · 56:44
A full-length public conversation, and the easiest of these to find. The subject is the one most often flattened into a fable; listen for how he puts the complexity back in.
Of Plimoth Plantation Facsimile — Online Launch
Tom Begley 与 Nathaniel Philbrick · 36:58
On the manuscript itself. He edited this facsimile edition, so here he is talking about the object he has spent the longest looking at.
Iconography Ep. 32 — Mayflower II (audio)
Tom Begley 等 · 69:17（他约占 8 分钟）
A podcast in which he appears for about eight minutes, edited. Worth hearing for content, but the two full talks above are the better sample of his natural pace — editing removes the pauses.
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