ABSTRACT
On July 21, 1921, a motorcade left the Bourne Whaling Museum in New Bedford, heading for Plymouth, Massachusetts. The drivers, mostly members of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, chose not to travel by train. Instead they drove northeast, passing by Assawampsett Pond, an ancient lake and wetland system long used by Wampanoag peoples. Then in Middleboro they turned eastward, heading for the coast and Plymouth where they participated in a daily tableau, “The Pilgrims Progress,” in which costumed townspeople “tread the ground, sacred to the memory of those who made it holy, remembering their privations, their courage, their sacrifices for their faith” (Old Dartmouth Historical Society 1921:16).
