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Excerpt from The Pilgrim Spirit, Shown in the Pilgrim Pageant Staged at Plymouth July and August
The American Tercentenary Committee, one hundred and more in number, elected to visit the Motherland, leaving New York in the spring of 1920. At Pilgrim shrines, in both England and in North and South Holland, they were welcomed and shown the greatest consideration, respect, and regard. Receptions, dinners, and the unveiling of tablet-memorials, with speeches, special entertainments, and excursions, marked the progress and course of this committee from the landing day in Europe to the hour of departure for home.
The admixture of kindly fellowship was still farther advanced by the Sulgrave Institute, through the purchase and embellishment of the home of W'ashington's ancestors in Eng land, and through the keen interest shown by patriotic societies in England, Holland, and America.
In America throughout the years 1920-21, the press, pulpit, and lecture platform, pageant, college, and school sounded the praises of these valiant, conscientious people, who, on December 21, 1620, landed on Plymouth Rock, and by this act aided in founding the Empire of the 7 est.
This little group proved to the world that, even though completely shut off from foreign supplies, they were able with but few crude hand tools to wrest a living from land and sea in a country in which there were no domestic ani mals. In agriculture, fishing, and barter, this Pilgrim band made comfortable progress. The world took cognizance of the demonstration. The tide set westward, and the future of English colonies in America, which up to that hour faced black disaster, was assured.
A fitting consummation of the two years' celebration of the soul-stirring beginnings of our nation was the historical pageant staged at Plymouth in the summer of 1921, costing upwards of one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars.
The permanent, essential, and appropriate improvements at Plymouth along the water front, emphasizing to the world the importance of this landing, also cost hundreds of thou sands oi dollars. Appraised by sentiment and the nobler im pulses, the results are unlimited, and as permanent as man can make his mark on this planet.
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