April Showers...

Plimoth After Dark

Plimoth After Dark

Essence of a Queen

Saturday, March 25
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Come experience Plimoth as you've never seen it before - After Dark!

Explore the sensuous world of Queen Elizabeth I's Tudor Court! Taste historic cocktails while mixing your own vial of the Queen's famous damask rose perfume. Test your skill at 16th-century drinking games and enjoy rousing tales of life at court from William Brewster.

$40 for Members
$45 for Non-Members

This event is 21+ and pre-registration is required.

Click 'Link' Below to Purchase Tickets!
https://essenceofaqueen.eventbrite.com

Exploring 17th Century Burial Hill

First Saturdays on Burial Hill

Join Us on April 1st

In Search of the Pilgrims:
Exploring 17th-Century Burial Hill

Visitors often look for the graves of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Burial Hill--but are they buried there? Join Stephen O'Neill, Executive Director of the Hanover Historical Society and Senior Lecturer at Suffolk University, on an exploration of the 17th-century site. Learn about colonial burial customs and see some of the earliest gravestones.

In Search of the Pilgrims: Exploring 17th-Century Burial Hill is part of Burial Hill: History in Progress, a free program that will continue through the year 2020. Launched independently in 2011 by the Plymouth Antiquarian Society, the Burial Hill series is now a collaborative program with the Pilgrim Society & Pilgrim Hall Museum. Each year, we will present a series of history expeditions on Burial Hill, one of America's oldest and most significant burying grounds. Tours will be offered on the first Saturday of every month at 1 pm (excepting January); meet at the top of the Hill.

No reservations are required for individuals and families. Participants may traverse steep and slippery slopes; please wear appropriate shoes. Severe weather may cancel tour; updates will be posted on the Plymouth Antiquarian Society Facebook page.

For more information contact pasm@verizon.net or call 508-746-0012

For a full listing of upcoming tours, visit www.plymouthantiquariansociety.org

Pilgrim Festival Chorus Presents Retrospectives

Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), the region’s principal community chorus, presents a spring concert, Retrospectives, on Saturday, April 29 at 7:30 pm at St. Bonaventure Church, 803 State Road, Plymouth, and Sunday, April 30 at 4 pm at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 842 Tremont Street, Duxbury. The chorus is directed by William B. Richter and accompanied by Elizabeth Chapman Reilly on piano.

Retrospectives highlights some of the best American composers creating choral music today. Works by Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, and Z. Randall Stroope, among others, have quickly become favorites with today's audiences. The program was selected to inspire a profound impact in concert, including a wide range of styles, from energetic gospel tunes and spirituals to harmonically rich settings of 19th and 20th century poetry.

Since 1999, PFC has delighted South Shore audiences with classical programming. The group of more than 70 singers of all adult ages is dedicated to the art of choral singing in authentic settings. In addition to annual spring concerts, PFC presents a Christmas-themed concert each December, as well as a Messiah sing-along, and summer concerts with pops-style programming.

Tickets are $20.00 for adults, $18.00 for senior citizens and $15.00 for students over 14. Children under age 14 are admitted free. Complimentary refreshments will be served in the church hall immediately following each performance.

Tickets may be reserved by phone by contacting Gail at (781) 826-8416. To order advance tickets online, or for more information about PFC, please visit www.pilgrimfestivalchorus.org, or follow Pilgrim Festival Chorus on Facebook.

Encounters Opening Reception

Come Bang a Drum Next Sunday!

Family Concert Next Sunday! 2-2:45 pm - Instrument Demo/Meet the Musicians 3-4 pm - Family Concert Memorial Hall, Plymouth

Put that youthful spring in your step at our Family Concert on Sunday afternoon at Memorial Hall, Plymouth. 100-plus children will be Puttin' on the Ritz singing a spirited medley of popular Irving Berlin songs, a 14-year old pianist will wow with a piano concerto--and the Phil will present a program that includes music from Verdi's dramatic opera, Nabucco! It's a musical smile-fest from beginning to end--and fun for the whole family! Kids and adults alike will enjoy this one!

Special Family Friendly Pricing! Tickets $8 or $12 for children and $15 or $20 for adults Groups of 10 or more save 10% TICKETS

2017 Service Auction

Announcing the 2017 Service Auction 

Saturday, April 8 Loring Center, 384 Court Street, Plymouth

Grab your Fedora and Guayabera shirt or your Bata Cubana for a fun filled night in Havana. Traditional Cuban music and a tapas menu with Plantanos asados con queso, Cuba Cerdo Tirade con radajas de pina taco, Cubaniches, and much more. Spanish speaking and Cuban dress, optional. 

Evening Fesitivities: 

5:00 pm Doors Open! 
5:00 – 6:30 pm – Cocktails, Appetizers, Tapas & Silent Auction 
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Live Auction with Bill Forniciari 
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Dessert & Dancing 

Needed: Items for the Service Auction 

Planning some early spring cleaning? The Service Auction includes jewelry, art, furniture, books, and any other items of worth. Have a donation to add? Please contact Amy Palmer, at 508-746-3912, or apdpalmer@comcast.net. 

Tickets $25 Per Person Senior Discount- $20 Per Person BONUS! All tickets purchased BY MARCH 11th will be placed in a raffle to win a free pair of tickets to the Plymouth VPA High School production of Les Miserables the weekend of March 17-18th. Buy your tickets early!

What's coming up from Plymouth 400?

It’s exciting to think that in less than 3 years we will be mounting a National Commemoration right here in New England! This winter has been productive for Plymouth 400. We presented our plans at the first meeting of the Plymouth 400th Anniversary Commission on January 24th at the State House. The meeting was presided over by Commission Chair Dusty Rhodes, President and CEO of Conventures, and attended by commissioners and legislators, as well as the Directors of the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the officers of Plymouth 400’s Board of Directors, and selectmen from Plymouth and Provincetown. In addition to myself, presenters included organizations represented on Plymouth 400’s Board of Directors, including the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Wampanoag Tribe, Provincetown 400 and Plimoth Plantation. Commissioners from western Massachusetts to Cape Cod and Provincetown left the meeting with a sense of excitement and future meetings are in the works. We are all proud to be working together toward this pivotal moment in our Nation’s history. 

Massachusetts 400 is gaining momentum as communities turning 400 in the next decade prepare for the 2020 kickoff. This year’s Mass400 Forum, usually scheduled for March, will be moved to the fall of 2017 as the anniversary communities begin to formalize their plans. Stay tuned for a “save the date” in the coming months. 

Plymouth 400’s Business and Organizational Partner program continues to blossom with over 100 partners onboard. To find out who they are and how to get involved, be sure to check them out by scrolling to the bottom of our homepage. Questions? Contact Program Manager Cheryl Soares at casoares@plymouth400inc.org. 

Our counterparts in the UK are also moving ahead I their plans for the 2020 commemoration. A new Executive Director, Charles Hackett, has been hired for Mayflower 400 UK and plans for transatlantic events and programs are underway. This fall BBC Radio Devon will be coming to broadcast an American Thanksgiving from our shores in November. Partners in Leiden, Netherlands and Cento, Italy are also planning to join us in a multi-continental event, “Illuminate Thanksgiving” in November of 2017. 

Plymouth 400’s exhibit, "Our"Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History tells the extraordinary story of Wampanoag history and culture beginning in the year 1614 through modern day. The traveling exhibit The exhibit was featured at Massasoit Community College for the month of February as part of the college's 50th anniversary celebrations and will return to the Canton Campus as part of their arts festival in May. 

Plymouth 400 and the Kingston Council on Aging's "Why History Matters" series wraps up on March 15th with a presentation on "2020: Honoring America's Story". The series has been very well attended and featured historians and other speakers from around the South Shore.
We are pleased to be invited to this year's History Camp Boston on March 18th. I'll be speaking on a panel of colleagues from around the State on building organizational collaborations to maximize major historic anniversaries intended to renew interest in our cultural institutions through events and programs, increasing the economic impact to those organizations and the Commonwealth. Tickets are sold out, but you can sign up to receive email alerts here. 

We are still holding regularly scheduled Community Meetings for anyone wanting to find out more about the commemoration plans and outreach. We also hold regular sessions for those who want to get involved now through 2020. Our next Volunteer 101 session is March 22nd at the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Building. Click here to learn more or sign up- with several events and programs planned for this summer, we're looking for all hands on deck! 

The Plymouth 400 commemorative license plate is doing well, with new plate owners coming on every day. Our goal is to have a majority of Massachusetts households “Driving America’s Story” for a big impact in 2020! Hence, we are gearing up for our 400th anniversary License Plate Auction this spring! The auction will be online for several weeks, culminating in a live gala auction at a historic location in Boston. Watch for a “save the dates” e-mail coming soon!