Hey Everyone,

Hello everyone Timothy Turner again the Manager of the Wampanoag Homesite and  Sunday November 29th 2009 is the end of anoghter season and museum will close, is has gone bye  fast.  This is the end of my 20th season here at Plimoth Plantation.

I just wanted to thank all of you for visiting the blog thought the year while we were open and I hope you will still visit the blog in the off season.  I will for the first time be able to show our public what we do in the winter thought video blogs you will love to see.  I have some great ideas for blogs this winter and trust me they will be great. Well thanks again for visiting the blog and now I want to leave you with some pictures from this season so here go’s.

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Hey Everyone,

I Just wanted to show you some old canoes sunk in a lake just as we would of in the 17th century with heavy stones in them. I was told about this web site from freinds. This is a project the Nipmac Nation in worcester Ma. is doing in Quinsigumon’s Lake. The Boats are thought to be approximately from 1640 Ad to 1680 Ad bye carbon 14 testing done on mishoon #1. I thought you would all like to see these.

The Web page is http://projectmishoon.homestead.com to get more info on this project.

Thanks
Tim Turner

Hey eveyrone,

Here’s a boat we made in the traditional way on the Wampanoag Homesite.  Thank you Hartman and Jonathan for your work on this project.  This is a  boat we worked on by working 24 hours a day till it was done.   We don’t do this today all the time at the museum.  This is  the way we would of done this in the 1600’s.   We did this by burning the tree’s down and than burning them out.  This boat was made out of pine, but we also made the out of chestnut and oak too.  This boat was made in  4 and a half days burnig the whole leight at one time 24 hours a day.     We use fire alot in the 17th century, we used fire to burn the wood to leight and to hollow wood out too.   I have made lots of boats with fire here at plimoth plantation.  I have worked at Plimoth Plantation now for 20 years now and we make 2 boats a year every vear .   When the boats are done we sell them to museums and sometime we put them in the river  for us to use too.

Thanks

Tim