{"id":1402,"date":"2020-11-08T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2020-11-08T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T13:43:18","slug":"a-stop-by-town-brook-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"A STOP BY TOWN BROOK PLYMOUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAKING WAY FOR THE HERRING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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BY DON DOUCETTE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Personal family medical business found us in Plymouth, Massachusetts this past Monday – and if we recall, the weather had shifted to resemble a classic November day with low gray clouds, chilly temperatures along with brisk winds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We usually attempt to visit Plymouth Center during these outings and so, made a customary lunch stop at the Lobster Hut at the Town Pier for bowls fish chowder and a shared small order of onion rings.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have driven across Town Brook many times which is close to the famous Plymouth Rock Memorial and during this day, personally decided to quick read the Pilgrim back-history of the Town Brook, a tiny watershed flowing directly to Plymouth Harbor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An original historic recon party sailing Cape Cod Bay reported a potential safe anchorage at Plymouth Harbor for the original Mayflower and along with a nearby supply of fresh flowing water – our present day Town Brook – thus our school years of historic accounts regarding the founding of the Plymouth Colony, remain both factual and mythical in content.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My quick read indicated that a young fourteen year old boy named Francis (Billinton) Billington was exploring the Town Brook during January, 1621, climbed a tree to reconnoiter and spotted a larger headwater and fancied in the young boy’s mind as a “great sea” and thus known today as Billington’s Sea, is actually a post-glacial fresh water pond so commonly found today on Cape Cod and within southeastern Massachusetts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our elementary school lessons also mentioned the cultural importance of herring to the local Indians and the Plymouth settlement.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Similar to our local Ten Mile River Watershed, attempts during the last several decades using a graduated process of obstacle removal and physical adaptations are to reestablish a herring population within Town Brook. And so, this historic natural cycle is expected to come full circle four hundred years following the initial founding of Plymouth Colony.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Don Doucette<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Ten Mile River Rambles”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Friends of the Ten Mile and Bucklin Brook<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Citizens of the Narragansett Basin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAKING WAY FOR THE HERRING BY DON DOUCETTE Personal family medical business found us in Plymouth, Massachusetts this past Monday – and if we recall, the weather had shifted to resemble a classic November day with low gray clouds, chilly temperatures along with brisk winds. We usually attempt to visit Plymouth Center during these outings<\/p>\n

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