| May Challenge: April Showers Bring May Flowers |
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| Series | Monthly Challenge |
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| Status | Finished |
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| Starts | 2019-05-01 09:00 CCT |
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| Closes | 2019-06-30 23:59 CCT |
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| Details | Info |
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| Challenge Goal: |  | | See Info for details |
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Like most of what people know about history, most of what they know about the Mayflower Pilgrims is wrong. The pilgrims on the Mayflower were not only Puritans, they were also Separatists, an extreme branch of Puritans. A minority within a minority within a minority. Even on their own ship they were a minority. Of the 102 passengers that sailed on the Mayflower, only 40 were actually Separatists. A majority of the passengers were adventurers with ordinary secular motivations: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where... ah, you get the picture.
Eventually, the Plymouth colonists were subsumed into the larger and darker Massachusetts Bay Colony, and that leads to our Challenge... |
