Meet Timothy Turner
Hey everyone,
This is me Timothy Turner Manager of the Wampanoag Homesite here at Plimoth Plantation. Here some info on me things I think you might want to know about me before you read my blogs.
I am a die hard sox fan, RED SOX that is you can even see in my picture how I support my team wearing my red sox all season long. I am married and have two step Daughter. I am from the Cherokee Nation from North Carolina but born and raised in here in Boston Massachsetts .
This is me at Plimoth Plantation in this picture I call this picture my home land defence picture what do you think? I have worked at Plimoth Plantations Wampanoag Homesite for nearly 20 years now. I started as a 12 year old boy and did special events.
I started 1986 or 1987 I cant remember the year. I have been an employee of the museum baring a few times I move away from Massachusetts. I started as a young interpreter and made my way up in the program as I got older and wiser.
I first became the Collections Manager for Plimoth Plantation Wampanoag Homesite. I worked as Collections Manager for 7 years when I was offered to become the site supervisor of the Wampanoag Homesite here at Plimoth Plantation in 2004 . I did that for 4 years and the assistant Manager position became open and I applied for that and got that position. I did that for over a year.
This spring Plimoth Plantation made me the Manager Here at the Wampanoag Homsite and I am enjoying my new role here. It just go’s to show you if you put your mind to something and work hard you can do anything you want. I didn’t ever think I could get to were I am now but I have a lot of great friends that helped me and the support from them has been great. I have a great staff too everyone here at Plimoth Plantation has great and has talents but I work with some special people, who have taught me a lot, thank you guys. I look at them as my extended family and they are great I call them our Plimoth family.
What do I love about my job ? lots most of the year I am outside enjoying the nice weather or sometimes the not so nice weather it balances out low. I talk to people from all over the world and also the country too. I get to talk about my native culture and that’s the best part. I can just be me, Native you know and that’s easy. I love the people I work with they are so cool I mean everyone from my staff, but all of the museums staff people from housekeeping to interpreters in the 1627 English Village every one here are great.
well I guess your going to have to come and see us at Plimoth Plantation we are waiting for you come see how fun History can be. Please keep reading my blog please comment to I will respond thanks for reading hope to see you soon
Timothy Turner
May 28th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Welcome back!
May 28th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Thank You Kathleen I am very happy to be back too…
May 28th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Tim,
Congratulations on your new role as manager! Your letter is inspiring not only because of your message of “if you put your mind to something and work hard you can do anything you want” — but also because of your generous praise for “a lot of great friends that helped” you and for your staff and for “all the museum staff people from housekeeping to interpreters in the 1627 English Village”! Inspiring!
May 28th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Hello Donna,
Thank you for your kind words. I hope people come and read my blogs. I hope people like what I write. Is this the same donna that has visited us at the end of last year at Plimoth Plantation and commented last year on the blog?
thanks
tim
May 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Congrats at getting the managers job. I know how hard you work and I am sure you will keep the fine quality going at the homesite.
As you know I am very interested in the annual snapping turtle migration. I hope we will hear some stories and see some pictures this year on your blog.
Steve
May 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Hey Steve,
Nice to write you again on the blog. Thanks for the congrats on the new manager title. Look for a turtle story if she comes up that is.
thanks
tim
June 5th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hey Tim, I had one couple from Oregon ask me this today. ” Did the natives ever get into weaving like the colonists did”?
Since they were leaving PP I couldn’t ask them to go down to WIP for the correct answer, so I said my belief was that natives of that period tended to keep with natural materials for clothing. Deerskin, bearskin, furs or feathers for protection from sun and cold.
What is the correct answer?
June 5th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Hey steve,
Well I dont know what type of weaveing they were talking about in the pilgrim vilage . If you were talking about clothing they sometimes used cedar bark to make shirts for the women. They also made woven belts and gaders out of plants like dog bane and milkweed that they twisted into cordage and died differnt colors. Clothing it self most times was deerskin, and bear skins for coats or beding, some small skins like foxs were sleave to keep there arms warm. Hope this help you steve.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Tim,
Hello! I am the same donna and visited at the end of last season and commented on the blog.
I like reading the blog and talk about the ideas and stories with my family, friends, and students. I encourage them to read and join the conversation.
I look forward to hearing you and the conversation generated by your blog — the voices like hearts beating with the life they know or recall — and giving life to visions that take me sometimes across time or space and sometimes to my own dirt roads — sometimes — to a turtle easing back into the Eel River — to a woman forming clay or breathing a fire to flame — to girls playing with dolls and keeping the birds from the corn — to a tobacco plant tenderly grown to be given as a gift — and then my own heart beats with great pounding — something from your stories, from your observations and reflections, or from a response on the blog clearly connects with my stories — and suddenly, I clearly stand placed and know my own name.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Hi Tim.
It’s been a long time but I was a volunteer on the homesite about 10 years ago. I logged on because I’ll be back in MA to visit in early September. Congratulations on the manager position. Good to see that you are still enjoying what you do.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Hey Anna,
Thank you. You volunteered in the homesite great, I dont remember your name did you work with me? sometimes I need a little biff to the head to remind me sometimes. You should come by Plimoth when your back in Ma. Thank you on the congrads.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
No worries Tim, I was just a teenager at the time myself. I started when Malka was still there and stayed on for about a year. I’m sure I’ll be around. The Plantation is a difficult place to resist.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Anna,
Ya saw Malka the other day I think I remember you now ya you got to come by to see us again at least keep reading the blog lol.