Plimoth Plantation Annual Report 2014

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How do you craft history? It’s a question with multiple meanings that we asked ourselves often over the course of the past year. History is handmade. Without the work of hands, there would only be the past, with no means of recording, viewing, recapturing or organizing the experiences of all the people who came before us. Without objects and oral histories, without buildings and documents, the door to the past would be closed to us. It is the scratch of a quill across paper, the crackle of fire shaping a wooden bowl, the needle pulling thread through linen, the whir of a drill piercing a wampum bead, the soft clatter of knitting needles, wet fingers working the clay, and the bite of a carpenter’s adze that connect us to the people of the past and enable us to tell their stories. History is literally at our fingertips.

At Plimoth Plantation, history is made by hand and by mind every day. Our work is about crafting a story as well as an object, sharing a perspective, making a meal, re-examining a document, and analyzing a fragment of pottery or fabric in which we discover elements of our collective past. And our work is never complete until we share it with the public. Fortunately, 2014 provided many opportunities to do just that.

Attendance increased by 15% over 2013, with more than 340,000 people visiting us in the 8 months that we are open. Visits to our website numbered over 1,552,331 with the highest rate of 215,299 occurring during Thanksgiving week. Approximately 74% were unique visits and 26% repeat. The most visited sections of our website continue to be Learn (Thanksgiving History and You are the Historian); followed by Plan Your Visit (Hours and Prices). Summer camps were sold out, bookings for our popular Wampanoag and Pilgrim classroom programs were strong throughout the winter months. Field trips increased by 3.5%.

The highlight of the year was the opening of our newly renovated and expanded Craft Center and Bakery – a testament to the exciting trend in experiential learning. A variety of artisans and hands-on activities in an inspirational environment, designed with the comfort of our

guests in mind would not have been possible without the enthusiasm and generous support from our board and other donors. Having successfully raised the $1.2 million needed for this priority capital project, we were able to check off one of the major infrastructure projects in the Museum’s current strategic plan.

Another major highlight was the NEH conference in October which brought together a panel of scholars whose research and insights are helping us to think in new ways about an interpretive master plan for the Museum. (Stay tuned for 2015 and beyond!)

Trustees Jane K. Reardon and Richard Thaler, having reached their term limits, moved off the board, but not too far. Fortunately for Plimoth Plantation both Jane and Richard agreed to serve on the Museum Council as non-voting board members. We are deeply grateful for their years of generous service to the Museum.

In December, Mayflower II left Plymouth harbor for a winter’s stay in Mystic, Connecticut at Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Approaching 60 years old, we know it’s time for some major work on the ship. A complete marine survey, including an out of water survey with all the ballast (131 tons) removed will reveal the extent and cost of the restoration work that lies ahead for this iconic ship. We want to be sure she is sound and seaworthy and continues to sail. We want the ship to look her best for 2020, but even more important, we want to ensure that the ship will still be here for her 100th birthday and beyond.

2014 at Plimoth Plantation was a year of revelations in living history. After 67 years of studying the past, recreating the early history of our Nation, and reviving and preserving the life-ways of Native and Colonial New England, Plimoth Plantation continues to ‘learn something old every day’ and to weave new threads, both subtle and bright, into the rich tapestry of exhibits, programs, events, conferences, collections and research that together are Plimoth Plantation. This is how we craft history.

On behalf of the Museum, we sincerely thank all of our volunteers, members and donors, and also, especially, our wonderful staff and Board of Trustees. It is their expertise, devotion and generosity that make Plimoth Plantation a world-renowned leader in its field.

STEVE BRODEURCHAIRMAN

ELLIE DONOVANEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Photo Courtesy of Vince DeWitt

Y EA R I N R EV I EW

The Museum was underway before the 2014 season officially began. In early March, Mayflower II sailed for The Pilgrims, a two-hour documentary written and directed by celebrated filmmaker Ric Burns for the PBS series American Experience. Although the ship is almost 60 years old, only a few minutes of film exist showing Mayflower II under sail without being surrounded by a flotilla of leisure boats. This time, without fanfare, the ship slipped quietly out of her berth at dawn, giving aerial photographers the chance to film more than ninety minutes of the solitary ship crossing Cape Cod Bay. Filming on the Museum’s historical sites followed, with Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees portraying Governor William Bradford. The Pilgrims is a BBC-PBS co-production and is scheduled to air internationally in November 2015. The film has also been named a signature project for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ 50th Anniversary.

Shakespeare at Plimoth Plantation found an intimate new home in the 17th-Century English Village with August performances in the Fort/Meetinghouse. The atmospheric building glowed with garlands of light. Plimoth Players commissioned its first original work, a two-actor piece called Shakespeare’s Guide for Lovers drawn from thirteen plays. Playwright-performer Annie Arthur became the company’s first female actor as the Plimoth Players’ fifth season expanded the Museum’s approach to presenting the Bard. Without losing commitment to historically-informed performance theater, Plimoth Plantation strives for innovation. A sold out performance called If Music Be Love Sing On featured the Museum’s actors in a Shakespeare cabaret that combined the Bard’s romances, comedies and sonnets with contemporary American music.

With the approach of Thanksgiving, media attention always increases, but 2014 featured high visibility projects. The 17th-Century English Village served as a site for the twelfth season of Bravo’s Top Chef. While sampling dishes from seven contestants, host Padma Lakshmi and celebrity judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, dined with Museum staff. The chefs were challenged to cook over fire using Colonial and Native hearths as well as 17th-century implements and pots. In late summer, the Gosselin family from TLC’s popular reality show Kate Plus Eight visited, and Kate Gosselin tweeted her delight with the Museum during the broadcast. Plimoth Plantation also appeared on screens at

the Sundance Film Festival, having served as consultants and as a location for Rob Eggers’ first feature length film The Witch. Eggers won Best Direction in the United States Dramatic category.

Even with all of the year’s activities, there was still time for scholarship, introspection and continuing to position Plimoth Plantation as a leader in multi-disciplinary inquiry on the 17th-century Atlantic World, incorporating history, the arts, humanities and sciences. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Plimoth Plantation $60,000 in support of an October planning conference to initiate the Museum’s process of creating a new interpretive plan. Seventeen academics from across the country as well as regional community leaders gathered at the Museum for two and a half days. They participated in three scholarly discussions open to Trustees, staff and Museum members. Plimoth Plantation also opened these content-rich conversations to researchers, classroom teachers, college students and general public.

These high level conversations advanced the Museum’s university affiliations, strengthened

ties with leading academics and provided the major themes and research directives for the development of the interpretive plan that will see Plimoth Plantation through four major anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of Mayflower II’s transatlantic sail (2017), the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landing and the Mayflower Compact (2020), the 400th anniversary of the First Thanksgiving (2021) and the 75th anniversary of Plimoth Plantation (2022).

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Above: Ric Burns and his crew filmed and shot above Mayflower II for the upcoming BBC-PBS documentary The Pilgrims.

They Knew They Were Pilgrim Descendants: Family History Comes AliveOn a crystal clear September evening, Plimoth Plantation hosted over 150 Mayflower descendants aboard Mayflower II, the Museum’s full-scale reproduction of the ship that brought their Pilgrim ancestors to New England almost 400 years ago. The guests, many of whom were in Plymouth for the Triennial Congress of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, enjoyed the vibrant night sky while savoring Pilgrim foods and sipping a “Mayflower Sunset” – the evening’s signature cocktail. In the ship’s Great Cabin, with guidance from Governor John Carver, they tried their hand at signing a personal copy of the Mayflower Compact with quill and ink. Descendants were delighted to meet many of their ancestors that evening, portrayed by the Museum’s talented roleplayers.

Plimoth Cinema Goes Digital!

Plimoth Cinema is flourishing, thanks to loyal audiences and passionate supporters. Across the country, art houses showing independent films are failing due to expensive studio demands for conversion to digital projection systems. As of June, Plimoth Cinema has the latest technology. In April, a sellout fundraiser

featuring Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper and noted actress and author Marianne Leone Cooper, demonstrated the Cooper family’s community spirit. They secured a special screening of his Oscar-nominated film August, Osage County. Jared Bowen, the host of Open Studio on WGBH, led a question and answer session with Chris Cooper. The April evening also launched a Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its goal.

Restoring the Museum’s Colonial Kitchen GardensThe Museum’s gardens delight the senses, invigorate the spirit and educate the mind. With support from the Amory Family Garden Fund, Plimoth Plantation began an ambitious project, the restoration of thirteen kitchen gardens in the 17th-CenturyEnglish Village.

Volunteers and staff replaced all garden soil with fresh compost, rebuilt and restored stone and wooden raised beds, and cleared invasive grasses and plants along walkways at each exhibit. Due to ongoing issues with woodchucks burrowing and rabbits feasting in the gardens, heritage plants are now started and maintained at the Museum’s Horticulture Center and transplanted as needed throughout the season.

Future plans include the expansion of surgeon Samuel Fuller’s garden in the 17th-Century English Village, which represents a Colonial medicinal garden as it may have looked in early Plymouth. The herb and vegetable gardens are key elements in the Village exhibit’s exploration of 17th-century health, foodways, and world view.

The Amory Family Garden Fund was established in 2011 in honor of beloved longtime trustee Shirley Amory. The fund provides ongoing support for horticultural exhibits, garden restoration and maintenance at Plimoth Plantation. Along with additional donations to the fund from New England Farm and Garden, various businesses and individuals, the Amory Family Garden Fund has seeded many blossoming projects. Plimoth Plantation is eternally grateful for the Amory family’s generosity.

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Nestled on Town Brook, Plimoth Grist Mill is the most dramatic place to witness the annual spectacle of

alewife (river herring) migration. Each spring over 100,000 alewives ascend the mill’s fishway on their trip to spawn in Billington Sea (a large fresh water pond), then pass by the mill again on their return trip to the ocean. When Tisquantum taught the Pilgrims how to plant maize in the spring of 1621, he showed them how to fertilize tired fields by burying alewives in each corn mound.

In April, the Herring Run Festival celebrated the hardy fish that survives despite the challenges of dammed rivers and fish ladders in disrepair. The two-day event was a collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the town of Plymouth and state agencies. Museum guests visited with scientists to learn about efforts to restore herring populations, and helped scientists in collecting valuable data by counting fish. The festival featured tours of the fish run, hands-on activities for families, food by local chefs and musical performances. Guests sampled the Museum’s favorite corn dishes. There was a director’s cut screening of the River Herring Migration Series followed by

a discussion with the filmmaker and wildlife researchers.

With help from Baystate Organic Certifiers, Museum staff became certified organic food handlers, an accomplishment that allows Plimoth Plantation to put USDA Certified Organic on the bags of meal and sampe (grits) stone-ground with water power at the Plimoth Grist Mill.

There were also advances made in offering guests and local restaurants varied types of organic heirloom corn. Plimoth Grist Mill staff worked with a local farmer to produce seed stock for Plimoth Flint Corn, a variety that was developed for Plimoth Plantation in the 1980s. The corn crosses heirloom Narragansett White Tip Flint with a multicolored corn to produce an eight row corn that matches the descriptions of the corn grown in 17th-century New England.

WA M PA NOAG H O M ES I T E

In May, United States Congressman William R. Keating, honored the Museum’s Indigenous Program in a speech delivered

to the House of Representatives. He urged his colleagues and constituents to see the mishoon (a traditional Native American canoe) that Plimoth Plantation had presented to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. The mishoon was the cover story of the Spring issue of The Affiliates: News About Smithsonian Affiliates. Plimoth Plantation’s Native educators were featured at the Congressional Night at the Smithsonian. The evening was called “Celebrating World Cultures” and drew 2,000 guests including Capitol Hill legislators, their staffs, interns and families.

At the height of the Thanksgiving season, the Museum served as a high-profile educational provider during the 94th National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. This two-day event was based at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center and assembled 4,000 K-12 educators from across the country. Plimoth Plantation offered sellout pre-and post-conference professional development

days in Plymouth. They featured guided tours of the Wampanoag and Colonial sites and Plymouth waterfront, scholarly panels on Native history and 17th-century theme dining. In addition to Plimoth Plantation’s popular historic immersion experience at the Hynes Convention Center, three of the Museum’s Native educators spoke on indigenous technology, the First Thanksgiving and the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project. Congratulations to Darius Coombs, Associate Director of the Wampanoag Indigenous Program, for receiving an Excellence Award from the New England Museum Association (NEMA) for his extraordinary dedication to sharing knowledge about Wampanoag cultural heritage and his inspiring leadership in transforming Native history interpretation at Plimoth Plantation. This was the inaugural year for the NEMA Excellence Award.

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The Museum’s living history sites are handmade worlds. They are crafted by talented artisans who revive and

teach historical technologies. These hands-on scholars recover lost ways of life and preserve ancient crafts, trades and domestic skills.

Each Native and Colonial structure at Plimoth Plantation is based on written or pictorial records, archaeological evidence and sometimes extant 17th-century buildings. Their furnishings, textiles and small objects of everyday life are exact reproductions based on original artifacts. Accurate, three dimensional re-creation is a process of historical discovery and its findings are cause for excitement Richard Harris, a noted architectural historian

said, “The next significant step in unraveling the mysteries of the past will be made by those who devote their talents to re-creating historic material worlds.”

A new reproduction Pilgrim dwelling opened in September. It represents Francis and Hester Cooke’s house and garden. The Cooke house opening highlighted the value of preserving traditional crafts and trades.

Speaking to assembled guests and staff, Executive Director Ellie Donovan said, “Our society in general seems to attach only monetary value to things and in so doing we lose touch with their true value – the accumulated knowledge, patience, skill, time,

love and commitment that go into building a house or making anything by hand.” Museum Members, supporters of the project and guests attended a housewarming picnic and visited with role players portraying Francis, Hester and Jane Cooke. After lunch, guests toured the newly opened Cooke House with the Museum’s artisans, and assisted exhibit staff in “staging the house” with reproductions of the Cooke family’s treasured possessions.

This year, the Palisade gate was opened for noted author and Boston Globe correspondent Ethan Gilsdorf who spent a day as a Pilgrim experiencing the handmade world of the 17th century. Donning period clothing crafted by our artisans, Gilsdorf fully immersed himself into life in Plymouth Colony.

Another distinguished visitor – renowned sampler expert Joanne Harvey – came to Plimoth Plantation to revive and preserve historical crafts through a weekend of workshops and lectures with dozens of the Nation’s finest embroiderers in attendance.

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There might be earlier Colonial experiences in America, but none touches the heart like Plymouth’s

story. No ship resonates in our national imagination as Mayflower does. The drama of a small, solitary ship on a stormy sea, carrying families searching for freedom and prosperity, symbolizes the journey made by every immigrant to these shores. It is the voyage that made a Nation.

In December, Plimoth Plantation and Mystic Seaport announced a collaborative project to restore and repair Mayflower II, the full-scale reproduction of the ship that brought the Pilgrims in 1620. Both museums are among the country’s most popular history destinations and both are Smithsonian Affiliates. Work on Plimoth Plantation’s historic tall ship will take place at Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard and will adhere to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Vessel Preservation Projects. Inspections in 2013 revealed that Mayflower II is in need of a major refit, which is normal for a nearly sixty-

year-old wooden ship and one whose decks have been visited by more than 25,000,000 guests.

Mayflower II arrived in Connecticut on a bitterly cold December day, yet the banks of the Mystic River were lined with several hundred onlookers, some of whom had seen the ship as children when Mayflower II toured the East Coast in 1957. Press coverage was abundant. Everyone knew they were in the presence of an American treasure and that the work of restoring Mayflower II is critical to preserving our national memory.

The shipwrights from both museums approach their task with a combination of skill and reverence – remembering the original Pilgrim voyage as well as the daring transatlantic crossing that Mayflower II made in 1957. Work immediately began on a multi-year restoration plan, honoring the ship’s original construction and using traditional methods with the goal of restoring the ship to her original condition.

“For me, the restoration of Mayflower II is a dream come true,” says Whit. “In the months and years to come we will restore and preserve this iconic ship so that future generations can continue to appreciate its beauty, significance and history.”

Mayflower II’s future vitality depends on continual preservation. The significant restoration of the fifty-seven-year-old wooden ship is scheduled for completion prior to 2020, the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival.

In July, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pledged $2,000,000 towards Mayflower II preservation. Executive Director Ellie Donovan said, “Plimoth Plantation greatly appreciates the enormous support for Mayflower II, especially from the Massachusetts State leadership for ensuring a major part of funding her restoration.”

WELCOMEABOARD!Whit Perry is Plimoth Plantation’s new Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations. He plays a pivotal role in the Museum’s progress toward 2020. Whit came to Plimoth Plantation with over thirty years of experience working with wooden boats. His most recent post was at Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, where he maintained and operated three square-rigged vessels.

Whit has a long history with ships and sailing, having journeyed all over the North Atlantic, Caribbean and the Mediterranean. He has commanded many different types of vessels, from small catboats to square riggers, schooners and sloops.

Left to Right: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Plimoth Plantation Executive Director Ellie Donovan, Plimoth Plantation Deputy Executive Director Richard Pickering, Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray

C RA FT C E N T E R

As the hub of the Museum’s educational experience, our Craft Center renovation and expansion was mission critical. This major investment in infrastructure and program development enhanced workspaces for Plimoth Plantation’s artisans and apprentices, added new hands-on activities and enabled the creation of the Plimoth Bread Company. An outdoor education pavilion for programs and performances was also completed. The Craft Center now offers improved amenities as well as an expanded Museum shop that features work by the Museum’s artisans. This stunning structure is a dynamic, participatory nucleus for a visit to Plimoth Plantation – one that showcases historical arts and technologies essential to the Native and European people in 17th-century New England.

The Craft Center renovation was funded in part by a matching grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund – a program of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, administered through a collaborative arrangement between MassDevelopment and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Additional funding for the project was generously provided by the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund, the Plymouth Industrial Development Corporation and a number of private donors including a leadership gift from Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Sheehan in honor of Domero and Sylvia Cortelli. The Museum achieved its goal of raising the $1.2 million needed for the project and is deeply grateful to the donors for their generous support.

- Ellie Donovan Executive Director

“Tonight, we’re not merely opening the doors on a new

building; we’re opening doors to new ways of learning.”

Photo Courtesy of Vince DeWitt

Plimoth Plantation’s commitment to broadening the Museum’s representation of historical

technologies gave rise to the Plimoth Bread Company. Inspired by the Museum’s celebrated 17th-century foodways and hearth cooking programs, the Plimoth Bread Company offers Museum guests the opportunity to taste and purchase bread baked in the Craft Center’s wood-fired clay oven. Every day artisans re-create 17th-century baking techniques. The Museum’s breads, pies and tarts are created from or inspired by authentic 17th-century recipes.

In keeping with Plimoth Plantation’s educational mission and living history approach, Plimoth Bread Company is an

interactive exhibit where bread making is explored through historical, cultural, scientific, technological and philosophical perspectives. The Plimoth Bread Company’s programming as well as its baked goods, reflect both Native and English food culture. Daily demonstrations, a calendar of special events, hands-on classes and workshops, round out the bakery exhibit.

Plimoth Plantation encourages making history at home. Try the Plimoth Bread Company’s Caramel Apple Pie recipe on the following page.

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Photo Courtesy of the Boston Globe

HISTORY IN THE BAKING!Foodways historian and Artisan Baker Dr. Tani Mauriello joined the staff in May. She holds a DPhil in British History from Oxford University. “Plimoth Plantation is the only place I could combine my culinary and academic interests,” says Tani. “I always thought that I would do history, but never thought I could do history and food.”

Caramel Apple PieDespite the many steps, this pie is pretty easy, but the timing can be tricky, so it’s best if two people can work on it together. Using a hot water crust is a nod to the 17th century, and the shortening, makes this hot water crust tender and delectable. This makes one 9-inch pie, with leftover caramel to keep for ice cream or for dipping fruit slices when reheated.

FILLING:3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced3 Golden Delicious or Braeburn apples (or your favorite sweet baking apple), peeled, cored, thinly sliced (for a deep dish pie plate, use 8 apples)1/4 tsp cinnamon1/2 cup unsalted butter3 tbsp all-purpose flour1/2 cup white sugar1/2 cup brown sugar1/4 cup water

CRUST:3/4 cup shortening (108 grams)1/2 tsp salt1 tsp milk1/4 cup boiling water2 cups all purpose flour

DIRECTIONS:1. Place apple slices in large bowl and mix with cinnamon. Set aside.

2. Ideally, have one person work on the caramel sauce while the other makes the crust. If an extra set of hands is not available, make crust first.

3. In a separate bowl with deep sides, whisk shortening, salt, milk and boiling water with a fork until creamy and relatively lump-free.

4. Add flour and fold in roughly using a rubber spatula to continually scrape sides of bowl while mixing.

5. Working quickly, divide dough in half* and roll out dough for bottom crust between waxed paper (This dough can get brittle as it cools, using the waxed paper to transfer it into the pie plate helps. Remove top sheet of paper, flip crust upside down and adjust over pie plate. Line pie plate and peel off remaining paper, trying to leave an inch of overhang around the edges). Place pie plate with bottom crust on a lined baking sheet. *If using a deep dish pie plate, use two-thirds of the dough for the bottom crust.

6. Roll out dough for top crust between sheets of waxed paper. Decide if you want a top crust with cut-outs from a cookie cutter or a lattice top. Remove top layer of paper, stamp out shapes or cut strips now, leaving the waxed paper beneath crust, and re-cover with waxed paper to help keep dough warm and pliable.

7. Preheat oven to 425 degrees and move on to making the sauce, melt butter in a saucepan, then stir in flour to make a paste. Add the sugars, then water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for five minutes, stirring very frequently.

8. When sauce is done simmering, pour half of it over the apple slices in the bowl and combine, coating the slices well, then pour slices into pie plate.

9. Remove waxed paper and arrange top crust over apples, and seal edges (wet fingers slightly while sealing if the dough won’t stick together).

10. Using a pastry brush and the other half of the sauce, generously coat the top crust with caramel sauce and then carefully pour the remaining sauce through the holes or lattice work of the top crust, filling in the gaps of the apple slices, until the sauce level reaches a little below the crust.

11. Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees F. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake for a further 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool and enjoy!

12. Serving suggestions: Add a slice of cheddar to the top because “Apple pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze.”

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#icrafthistory was a landmark celebration in the Museum’s history, a four-day event that highlighted the grand opening of the renovated Craft Center and the all-new Plimoth Bread Company.

Museum guests learned about many forms of craft that are integral to a living history museum, as well as those that enrich our contemporary lives.

As the symbolic hearth of the community, Plimoth Plantation wanted everyone to be here for the Craft Center’s housewarming. On Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and September 28, Plymouth residents were admitted free, and Massachusetts residents could purchase half-priced admission to Plimoth Plantation, Plimoth Grist Mill, and Mayflower II.

With media sponsorship by Yankee magazine, the grand opening explored and celebrated all types of craft makers through exhibits, demonstrations and presentations. The weekend also encouraged the public to spotlight their own artistic contributions by using the hashtag #icrafthistory throughout the Museum’s social media channels.

In addition to the reinstallation of Plimoth Plantation artisan exhibits in the Craft Center, the event brought together distinctive guest craftspeople across a wide range of disciplines to demonstrate and teach diverse skills. Weaving, furniture inlaying, rug hooking, beer brewing, and scrimshaw were some of the special exhibits. The September weather was ideal and painters worked en plein air

throughout the Museum grounds. The Plimoth Bread Company debuted with its new wood-fired clay oven and a variety of 17th-century baked goods including a signature bread created by food historian and baker, Tani Mauriello, PhD.

Live music played throughout all Museum sites during the weekend, starting off with a performance by the Groovalattos – a soul – funk band comprising award-winning studio and touring musicians and singers from the Cherokee, Choctaw and Wampanoag communities. Other highlights included a distinguished lecture series, an Imagination Station with kids’ activities such as wampum and sgraffito pottery making and a special Breakfast with the Baker featuring breads warm from the oven.

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ASSETS

CURRENT ASSETS Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 109,161Retail Inventory, net 284,141Contributions Receivable, net 787,624Accounts and Other Receivables 119,160Prepaid Expenses 54,370Total current assets 1,354,456 PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT Site Development and Buildings 16,444,625Mayflower II 2,549,18517th-Century English Village Houses 1,701,020Other Exhibits 732,389Office Furniture and Equipment 688,287Construction in Progress 180,321Leasehold Improvements 21,946TOTAL 22,317,773Accumulated Depreciation (12,071,757)PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET 10,246,016 OTHER ASSETS Cash Restricted to Investment in Property & Equipment 80,000Contributions Receivable, net 1,326,500Bond Issuance Costs, net 150,441Other assets 16,205Investments 7,170,591Beneficial Interest in Perpetual Trust 2,652,003TOTAL OTHER ASSETS 11,395,740 TOTAL ASSETS $ 22,996,212

Fiscal year ending December 31, 2014

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES Line of Credit $ 492,218 Current Portion of Bonds Payable 182,400Current Portion of Note Payable 39,736Current Portion of Capital Lease Obligation 24,111Accounts Payable 388,181Accrued Expenses 116,030TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 1,242,676 OTHER LIABILITIES Bonds Payable, net of Current Portion 4,546,132Note Payable, net of Current Portion 166,757Capital Lease Obligation, net of Current Portion 40,830Interest Rate Swap Agreement 150,799TOTAL OTHER LIABILITIES 4,904,518 TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 6,147,194

NET ASSETS Unrestricted net assets Attributable to Operations and net Investment in Plant 6,188,143Board designated funds 465,183TOTAL UNRESTRICTED 6,653,326Temporarily restricted 3,376,449Permanently restricted 6,819,243

TOTAL NET ASSETS $ 16,849,018 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 22,996,212

GIFTS RAISED BY SOURCE

77.5%CORPORATE &GOVERNMENT

5.5%MEMBERSHIP

12.1%FOUNDATIONS

5.0%INDIVIDUALS

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

REVENUES, GRANTS AND SUPPORTAdmissionsRetail Merchandise SalesGrants and ContributionsMembershipsFunction and Facility RentalsEducational ProgramsContributed ServicesInvestment IncomeOther IncomeLoss on Disposal of Property and EquipmentDistribution from Beneficial Interest in Perpetual TrustNet Assets Released from Restrictions

TOTAL REVENUES, GRANTS AND SUPPORT

EXPENSES17th-Century English Village ExhibitGeneral and AdministrativeCost of Merchandise SoldWampanoag Indigenous Program ExhibitRetailMarketingMuseum Program SupportCraft Center and Grist Mill ExhibitsEducationDevelopmentMayflower II ExhibitMembership

TOTAL EXPENSE

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS FROMOPERATING ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted

$ 4,825,6402,083,092

646,201182,465193,293306,339211,065

13,275318,842

(139,103)

120,7061,990,773

$ 10,752,588

$ 2,111,2081,894,609

948,072760,449723,878667,457573,742

498,496418,343351,918342,199

12,772

$ 9,303,143

$ 1,449,445

TemporarilyRestricted

$ --

2,553,657----

88,563--

-(1,990,773)

$ 651,447

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$ 651,447

PermanentlyRestricted

$ --

27,000-------

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$ 27,000

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$ 27,000

Total

$ 4,825,6402,083,0923,226,858

182,465193,293306,339211,065101,838318,842

(139,103)

120,7060

$ 11,431,035

$ 2,111,2081,894,609

948,072760,449723,878667,457573,742

498,496418,343351,918342,199

12,772

$ 9,303,143

$ 2,127,892

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NON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on InvestmentsChange in Fair Value of Beneficial Interest in Perpetual TrustNet Gain (Loss) on Interest Rate Swap Agreement

TOTAL EXPENSE NON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS FROMNON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR

Unrestricted

$ (32,269)

-

165,169

$ 132,900

$ 1,582,345

$ 5,070,981

$ 6,653,326

TemporarilyRestricted

$ 47,260

-

-

$ 47,260

$ 698,707

$ 2,677,742

$ 3,376,449

PermanentlyRestricted

-

(61,394)

-

$ (61,394)

$ (34,394)

$ 6,853,637

$ 6,819,243

Total

$ 14,991

(61,394)

165,169

$ 118,766

$ 2,246,658

$ 14,602,360

$ 16,849,018

ADMISSIONS & RETAIL

GIFTS & CONTRIBUTIONS

EDUCATION & OTHERPROGRAMS

INVESTMENT INCOME, DISTRIBUTION & LOSS ON DISPOSAL OF PROPERTYAND EQUIPMENT

TOTAL REVENUE:

60.4% 31.7% 7.2% .7%

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Twelve Tribes Project Growth Plymouth North HS Suzanne Adam Olyvia Adams Maryellen Anastasia

Jocelyn Anderson Colleen Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Argus Elaine L. Argus Anne Arthur Master Paul

Atchison Ella Atchison Dr. Penny Axelrod Eve Ayling Amy Bates Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beane Claudia M.

Bett Jane Bishop Margaret Blackwell Vivian Bolt Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bolton Deborah Botelho Mr. and

Mrs. Thomas Bott Ricarda B. Bowser Piper Brossard Caris Brown Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brush Mr. and Mrs.

Dave Buck Lynne P. Buckley Diane Budge Laura Busky Barbara Cain Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carpenter Peggy

Church Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coco Alexander Coffey Mr. and Mrs. John Cook Cherie Cormier Patricia Correa

Tim Cosseboom Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Costa Marion Crocker Beth M. Croll Jane Kowal Carolyn Crowell

Suzanne de Lesdernier Ira Dearing Ed DeFelice Peggy Dixon Bridget Donahue Melodie Dustin Kevin P.

England Mr. and Mrs. Russell Enos Emma Esterman Skyler Falcone Jackie Fee Elizabeth Feldman Mr. and

Mrs. Gary Ferrari David Finneran David Fitzgerald Celia Fitzgerald Stephen Fletcher Susan Flier Libby Forni

Carol C. Fortini Mary Gallant Jacquelin Giaccaglia Kathryn Gloster Rose Gomes Paula Goodwin Alice Gray

Linda Green Lorraine Griffin Nancy Grimm Elizabeth Halloran Mr. and Mrs. Francis Harrington Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Hicks Ashley Holm Robert Howard Anne Lynch Donald B. Ingram Mary Irving Bob Jaeger Bertha

Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jennings Marjorie Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jordan Heather Kamataris

Carole Kanter Michael Kaup Mary Keefe Paul Kite Katherine Kowaloff Nancy Kronenberg Pamela La Crosse

Elizabeth Laitinen Eva Landsberg Jenny Laughlin Isabelle Lipton Lizabeth Loring Anita MacKinnon Patrick

Maney Hiroko Massarelli Mary McGonagle Jennifer Moreland Chelsea Morris Mary Mullaney Virginia Murray

Madeleine Muzdakis Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Maney Nathan Nelson-Maney Shannon Nelson-Maney Shayna

Marie Newman Celia Nolan Taylor O’Leary Mr. and Mrs. Arne Olsen-Storvik Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson

Shannon O’Neill Christine O’Neill John Oney Jake Palenstijn Dean Palenstijn Terry Parekh Sarah Peck Nicole

Perkins C. Dylan Perry Doris Pike Nancy Pratt Barbara Provest Kathleen Quinn-Kortis Sara Rosenberry

Charlotte Russell Rick and Betsy Ryan Elizabeth J. Sander Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Savery Karen Schwenk Diane

Shagoury Isabella Silvia Alexandra Sliwoski Deborah Smith Marion Smith Linda Snook Janette Somerville

Laurie Sybertz Cynthia Sykes Susan Targrove Mrs. and Mr. Sarah Tibbetts Kathy Tripi Mrs. and Mr. Anne

E. Verre Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vogenberger Dolores Wallick Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Ward Lucille Weiss

Shawn Westcott Diane Wheaton Stacie Williams Diane Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Allen Zubatkin Susan Zubatkin

G I V EO U R V O L U N T E E R S

INTRODUCING:

VOLUNTEER OFTHE YEAR

JACKIE FEE

Jacqueline Fee, our 2014 Volunteer of the Year, worked with many other dedicated volunteers from the Greater Boston Knitting Guild and the Weavers Guild of Boston in a collaborative project over a period of several years. This meticulous research included the analysis of 17th-century knitted items and pictorial evidence. The resulting patterns, all tested and refined by experienced knitters, led to the publication this year of Knitted Garb: Inspired by the Originals: Designs for Plimoth Plantation and Beyond. At a recent event honoring Jackie, the Museum’s Executive Director said “In particular we wish to acknowledge with great admiration, respect and affection Jackie Fee whose mastery of the material, and whose skill and dedication to her art, made this collection of patterns possible.“

The story of how Jackie became a Plimoth Plantation volunteer began over three decades ago. It started in 1981 when her daughter, Nancy Fee Cook, became manager of the Museum’s Costumes and Furnishings Department. Nancy brought to her mother’s attention a monograph entitled 17th Century Knitting Patterns as adapted for Plimoth Plantation, self-published by The Weavers’ Guild of Boston. In Jackie’s words; “As one who had decided to limit my knitting to seamless, circular construction, I was overjoyed to

discover that the items included in thebooklet were all worked ‘ in the round,’ being the same construction as the originals.”

Soon thereafter, Jackie wrote a definitive instructional knitting book titled The Sweater Workshop that was published in 1983 and is on its second edition. Plimoth Plantation is proud to offer both of her books in our gift shop, as well as Plimoth Plantation Knitted Waistcoat kits. It is a labor of love for her to “bring the thrill of creative knitting to a whole new generation of knitters.” Some 90,000 knitters who own The Sweater Workshop are a testament to Jackie’s ability to teachand inspire.

In 2010, when Jackie joined the newly formed Plimoth Knitters’ Club at Plimoth Plantation, little did she know that her past experience documenting and explaining knitting techniques would be just the remedy needed for the inconsistent patterns and terminology the club encountered. Over the next four years, Jackie began revising each pattern used by club members. More volunteers joined the effort to knit for the museum program and to test patterns. When she shared news of the Plimoth Knitters’ Club with the Greater Boston Knitting Guild, their members also started volunteering their time and expertise. They meet in the Visitor Center once a month to display the knitted 17th-century items, answer visitors’ questions and create new pieces for the Plimoth Plantation living history exhibits.

Plimoth Plantation is forever grateful to Jackie for sharing with us her considerable talent in creating knitted pieces and patterns for the Museum’s collection and exhibits, but more importantly, for exemplifying the impact volunteers have at Plimoth Plantation.

WALTER AMORY1924 - 2014Walter was an accomplished sailor, rower and maker of intricate model ships. He spent his career as an engineer and entrepreneur, helping control storm damage, rebuilding dams and creating water treatment and water storage facilities. Walter was deeply devoted to the town of Duxbury where he founded Amory Engineers in 1973, helped start the Duxbury Bay Maritime School and contributed his expertise in preserving local beaches. He graduated from Groton School in 1942 and entered the Navy ROTC program at Harvard University where he received his BA. He served in the US Navy during the Second World War, then returned to Harvard to complete his master’s degree in structural engineering. His wife Shirley served as a Plimoth Plantation trustee from 1995 to 2003 and she is now an Honorary Trustee. They married in 1947. The Amory Family Garden Fund makes the Museum a place of beauty, contemplation and education for guests.

BRENDA BALBONI1938 - 2014Brenda generously supported the Museum through her family business, Pioppi’s Package Store, which was founded in Plymouth more than eighty years ago. She was a lifelong resident of Plymouth and married Dennis Balboni in 1961. Brenda was a Class of 1956 graduate of Plymouth High School and a graduate of Lasalle Junior College. In her early years, she was employed in Boston at State Street Bank.

ELIZABETH “BETSY” SAFE RICHARDS1934 - 2014Betsy was a generous friend to Plimoth Plantation, giving her support and advocacy for the Museum’s advancement. She was the widow of Kenneth Safe, Jr., who served as a Plimoth Plantation trustee and benefactor from 1998 to 2002. The Cranberry Hospice was particularly close to

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Betsy’s heart. She was active in the Friends of Cranberry Hospice’s annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees, a holiday event that was often held at the Museum’s Hornblower Visitor Center. She loved spending time on Duxbury Bay with her grandchildren. She was active in many community clubs and charitable organizations, including the Duxbury Yacht Club, The Chilton Club and Duxbury Garden Club. She is survived by her husband, George Richards.

WILLIAM “BILL” M. RIEGEL1928 - 2014A longtime member and supporter of Plimoth Plantation, Bill spent most of his professional career in the paper, packaging and forest products industry. A graduate of Deerfield Academy and Williams College, he served as a Naval officer in the Sixth Fleet from 1952 to 1955. He later founded Riegel Associates, a management and consulting firm based in Duxbury. He also served as Chairman of the Board of the Bryce Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. Bill served on various boards associated with the paper industry. He was a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club. In his retirement, he was a director of both the Historic Winslow House in Marshfield and the Manomet Center for the Conservation Sciences. He is survived by his wife, Nancy.

DOROTHY CREUTZ1934 - 2014

DONALD MUNSEY1933 - 2014

GEORGE OBUCHON1944 - 2014

JOHN SEARS1930 - 2014

KATHRYN WHITAKER1941 - 2014

“So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of the day in the lone East.” - M. Haskins

I N H O NO R A N DM E M O RY O F

In Memory Of

IN MEMORY OF HOWARD ELLISON ROGERSThe Ellison FoundationIN MEMORY OF DR. FRANCIS LEBARONThe LeBaron FoundationIN MEMORY OF SAM STEWARTDr. William H. AinslieIN MEMORY OF ROGER S. ARNOLDMrs. Marion J. ArnoldIN MEMORY OF DENISE FORDMr. and Mrs. John F. AucelloIN MEMORY OF KAREN SCHWARTZMs. Carol L. BarrIN MEMORY OF DAVID L. NARVER, JR.Mrs. Margaret BlairIN MEMORY OF LAURA ELIZABETH BOECKLEMr. and Mrs. Robert BoeckleIN MEMORY OF JOHN C. BURRINGTONMs. Shannon BurringtonIN MEMORY OF ARTHUR R. CHAPINMr. and Mrs. Thomas F. ChapinIN MEMORY OF MARINA LOUISE HOLMESLANGLOISMs. Elmire L. ConklinIN MEMORY OF GEORGE SOULEMs. Cindy CovellIN MEMORY OF DOROTHY M. CREUTZMr. Edward F. CreutzIN MEMORY OF RICHARD P. HELWIGMrs. Bette J. HelwigIN MEMORY OF PHILIP E. TAYLORMr. and Mrs. James Hoffman IIIIN MEMORY OF GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORDMs. Nancy C. HunterMr. and Mrs. Paul A. PalmerMr. Edgar B. Hardin

IN MEMORY OF LEV W. SWIFT, JR.Ms. Margaret M. JohnsonIN MEMORY OF PEGGY BROOKS SWIFTMs. Margaret M. JohnsonIN MEMORY OF RENA MELAHOURESMs. Elena C. KiriosIN MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER TODD KNUDSENMr. Lewis KnudsenIN MEMORY OF HAROLD B. LA ROQUEMrs. Millicent La Roque LowreyIN MEMORY OF GEORGE KING MANNINGDr. Marcia M. LeeIN MEMORY OF GWEN MEIERMr. Richard P. MeierIN MEMORY OF ALAN V. MOONY, JR.Mrs. Phyllis C. MoonyIN MEMORY OF JAMES E. LEWISMrs. Patricia M. NellisIN MEMORY OF BETSY OEHMEMr. and Mrs. F. Edward Nicolas

IN MEMORY OF MALCOM NORTHAMMr. and Mrs. Jack E. OppasserIN MEMORY OF JUDIE NORTHAM OPPASSERMr. and Mrs. Jack E. OppasserIN MEMORY OF RUTH CARR BARKERMs. Marjorie OsbornIN MEMORY OF LT. WILLIAM PALMERMr. and Mrs. Paul A. PalmerIN MEMORY OF MARJORIE L. PEPPERRev. Donald R. PepperIN MEMORY OF MILES STANDISHMrs. Carolyn PledgerIN MEMORY OF JOHN AND PRISCILLA ALDENMrs. Carolyn PledgerIN MEMORY OF CHARLES MANN CHURCHMr. and Mrs. Wayne V. ReedIN MEMORY OF MARILYN HATCH BEAULIEUMr. and Mrs. Wayne V. ReedIN MEMORY OF RUTH HAYS SMITHMr. D. Alan SmithIN MEMORY OF STEPHEN HOPKINS SNOWDr. Roger L. SnowIN MEMORY OF STEPHEN HAWKINSMrs. Carole SteeleIN MEMORY OF FRANCIS COOKEMrs. Carole SteeleIN MEMORY OF WALTER AMORYMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. StewartIN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BREWSTERMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. Stewart

IN MEMORY OF CAROL CITYMr. and Mrs. George D. WadsworthIN MEMORY OF DICKIEMrs. Susanne WestIN MEMORY OF CHARLES COOLIDGE WITHINGTONMs. Marian H. WithingtonIN MEMORY OF NATHANIEL MORANGMrs. Margaret H. Wonser

In Honor of

IN HONOR OF THOMAS AND KATHRYN GLOSTERJewish Community FoundationMr. Adrian M. Massie, Jr.IN HONOR OF THOMAS ROGERSMr. Kenneth AdamsIN HONOR OF STEPHEN HOPKINSMr. Kenneth AdamsIN HONOR OF MISS EVA LIPTONMs. Eileen B. AndrukIN HONOR OF SHIRLEY AMORYMr. Christopher BarberMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. StewartIN HONOR OF THE BOZEK FAMILYMr. Russell BozekIN HONOR OF RICHARD MOREMrs. Carrie CarpenterIN HONOR OF ROBERT CUSHMANMr. Robert E. Clemons

IN HONOR OF THELMA S. COLLINSMr. Lawrence A. CollinsIN HONOR OF JOHN H. FOSSMrs. Jean W. FossIN HONOR OF VICKI OMANMrs. Gretchen FountainIN HONOR OF CHRISTOPHER AND CAROLINEMr. and Mrs. Mic HernandezIN HONOR OF NANCY KRONENBERGMs. Joan HewlettIN HONOR OF MARY CHILTONMs. Merrilee HindmanIN HONOR OF HUGH BRADFORDHARMONMr. and Mrs. Ted HubbardIN HONOR OF WILLIAM BREWSTERMr. and Mrs. Jack E. HughesIN HONOR OF LUCY GRAVESTALIAFERROMrs. Marilyn KletkeIN HONOR OF SADIE BARNES KNOXMs. Polly C. KnoxIN HONOR OF BEATRICE PEDROMr. and Mrs. Carl LeMarIN HONOR OF JOSEPH GUILFORD FALCONMrs. Frances NergardIN HONOR OF JACKIE FEEMrs. Judith A. O’NeilIN HONOR OF BOB REGANMrs. Helene M. ReganIN HONOR OF JAY LAMONT ROBINSONMr. James RobinsonIN HONOR OF GERDA SAVERYMr. and Mrs. Ralph SaveryIN HONOR OF SUSAN S. VINCENTMr. and Mrs. Robert A. VincentIN HONOR OF EUNICE LUELLA KIDWELL AKERSMrs. E. Ruth Woody

Gifts listed in each report were received between January 1st and December 31st 2014. a Every effort has been made to ensure this report is accurate. We would appreciate any errors or omissions being brought to the attention of the Development Office by contacting Courtney Roy-Branigan, Director of Development at 508-746-1622 (Ext 8203) so we may correct our records.

The Hornblower Circle$25,000 and Above

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. BrodeurMrs. Sarah FullerMs. Martha S. MugarMr. and Mrs. Gerald V. Sheehan

Leader10,000-$24,999

Mrs. William S. BrewsterMrs. Nancy R. HerndonMr. and Mrs. Philip C. OlssonMr. David R. Pokross, Jr. and Ms. Laurie S. Gill

Ambassador$5,000-$9,999

Mr. and Mrs. George P. Edmonds, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. K. Prescott LowMs. Amy MerrillMr. Richard PickeringMr. and Mrs. Robert Wareham

Sustainer$2,500-$4,999

Mr. Craig BrennerMr. David BurnhamMr. and Mrs. Holbrook R. DavisMr. and Mrs. Robert A. Graff

Col. Frank W. Harris III, USMC (Ret.)Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. QuinnMrs. Mary Bartlett ReynoldsMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. Stewart

Supporter$1,000-$2,499

Mrs. Shirley AmoryMr. and Mrs. Selwyn AthertonMr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. BrewsterMr. and Mrs. Andrew S. CarterMr. Christopher Cooper and Mrs. Marianne Leone CooperMs. Ellie E. DonovanMs. Elizabeth Fama and Mr. John H. CochraneMr. Stephen FletcherMr. and Mrs. Peter FrameMr. and Mrs. Edward R. GatesMr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gloster IIIMrs. Marion D. HarrisMs. Deborah A. HawkinsMs. Sheila Slocum HollisMr. Robert Howard and Ms. Anne LynchMr. and Mrs. F. Sherman HoytMr. and Mrs. Ted HubbardMr. and Mrs. Christopher HusseyMrs. Mary V. KurtzMr. and Mrs. Robert K. LamereMr. Charles E. Merrill, Jr.Ms. Lois E. MoranDr. and Mrs. John M. MoranMrs. Paul S. Morgan

C H A I R M A N ’SSO C I ETY

We are grateful beyond words for the loyal support of an outstanding group of volunteers and donors, whose generosity and commitment to Plimoth Plantation is an inspiration. Thank you for your help in fulfilling the Museum’s educational mission.

Mr. George J. MutrieMrs. A. Jay ObuchonMr. and Mrs. Martin PersonMr. and Mrs. John P. Reardon, Jr.Mr. Powell Robinson, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. RussellMr. Richard H. SgarziMrs. Marilyn C. StewartMr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. StubbsMr. and Mrs. Charles F. Vandini, Sr.Mr. Richard C. Walton and Ms. Susan OlsenDr. James M. WeissMr. and Mrs. James O. Welch, Jr.Mr. Willard J. WhartonMr. and Mrs. Nathan N. Withington

Contributing Members$500-$999

Mr. Ralph B. AllisonDr. Paul Coverdale BartlettMr. and Mrs. Robert BrawerMs. Christina BrodieMr. and Mrs. Dave BuckMs. Mary B. DannerMr. Glen DowdenMs. Ruth Ann FayMs. Libby ForniMr. and Mrs. James A. FreedmanMs. Linda A. GillerMr. John J. GillisMs. Gail GreenleeMr. and Mrs. Robert G. HalaszMr. Gordon Harris and Ms. Judi UrquhartMr. and Mrs. Alan HarveyMr. and Mrs. David J. HealyMr. Daniel P. Herres and Mrs. Rebecca M. Gilbreth-HerresMr. and Mrs. John B. JamiesonMr. and Mrs. Hudson La ForceIIIMr. and Mrs. John R. LaPann, Jr.

In addition to the donations listed here, Plimoth Plantation would like to thank and acknowledge

the 1,780 supporters who made a gift up to$499 in 2013. Every gift makes a difference.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. LongMr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. MacNaughtMr. and Mrs. Peter L. MalkinMr. E. MacDonald MatterDr. and Mrs. Richard MerloMr. and Mrs. Richard R. MeyerMr. and Mrs. Nathaniel D. PhilbrickMr. Jerome PowellMrs. Nancy B. RiegelMr. and Mrs. Edward W. SantosMr. Lee Smith and Ms. Kristine HerrickMs. Joan Thompson-SteinMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey WallaceMs. Barbara V. WeidlichMrs. Barbara K. Wheaton

In addition to the donations listed here, Plimoth Plantation would like to thank and acknowledge the 1,242 supporters who each made a gift up to $499 in 2014.

Every gift makes a positive difference – Thank you!

CO M M U N I TYPA RT N E RS

Leader$10,000+A&E Television Networks (The History Channel)Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England, Inc.Newfield House, Inc.

Patron$2,500Catania Hospitality GroupOld North Advisors, LLCRogers and Gray Insurance Agency, Inc. Contributor$1,000Green Castle VideoHigh Point Treatment CenterLobster Hut of PlymouthPlymouth Bay WinerySociety of Mayflower Descendants in the State of FloridaStenback & Taylor, Inc.Sysco Boston, LLCThe ARC of Greater Plymouth

Supporter$500Best Western Cold SpringColony Place Development LLCJack Conway & Co., Inc.KAF Financial Advisors, LLCPartners TechnologyPerformance PediatricsSociety of Mayflower Descendants in the State of IllinoisTufts Health Plan

Neighbor$250Hampton Inn & SuitesHilton Garden InnSociety of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Connecticut (SMDSCT)

Bed & Breakfast PartnerAbove the Bay at Thornton Adams B&BBayberry Inn Bed & BreakfastBy the Sea Bed & BreakfastSeabreeze Inn Bed & BreakfastThe Jesse Harlow House

The Community Partners program recognizes the generosity of businesses, lineage societies and nonprofit organizations that sustain Plimoth Plantation’s tradition of excellence and ensure our legacy as a dynamic living museum. Plimoth Plantation is grateful to our 2014 Community Partners for their support, and for the varied ways in which they advance our educational mission.

“I can no other answer make thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

- William Shakespeare

The Museum wishes to thank especially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for continuing to provide essential general operating support for the Museum through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

In particular we thank Senate President Therese Murray for her many years of service to her community. constituents and the Commonwealth. Significant funding for the restoration of Mayflower II wouldn’t have been possible without her strong advocacy for tourism in our region and her understanding that Mayflower II is a national treasure worthy of support.

Special thanks also to Governor Deval Patrick, Representative Vinny deMacedo, and Representative Cory Atkins, Chair of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.

G I FTS I N K I N D

Dr. Penny AxelrodMr. David E. BermanMs. Nancy M. BrennanMr. and Mrs. Dave BuckMr. and Mrs. David BuckmanMr. William J. BurnsMs. Nancy E. CarrollMs. Diane ChaissonMs. Susannah ClarkMr. and Mrs. Robert J. CocoMrs. Donna R. CourchaineMr. and Mrs. Andy DaigleMr. Ron Dean

Ms. Ellie DonovanDr. Sloane Drayson-KniggeMr. Jon EnosMr. Stephen FletcherMs. A. Patrizia GalassiMr. and Mrs. Eric HayesMs. Nanci HobsonMr. and Mrs. Henry Hornblower IIIMrs. Diane HuntMr. Robert E. Kluin, Jr.Mr. Mark LaBrecqueMr. and Mrs. Philip T. LaPradMr. and Mrs. John T. LebicaMr. and Mrs. Rush H.

Mr. Jason MacDonaldMs. Helen R. MacFarlaneMs. Tani MaurielloMr. and Mrs. Daniel McBrideMr. and Mrs. Houston MorrisMs. Sandra G. MunseyMr. and Mrs. Nicholas M. NikitasMrs. Catherine NissleMs. Kathy O’LearyMs. Vicki OmanMs. Kristen OneyMs. Sue Peabody

Ms. Dianne K. PotterMr. and Mrs. George RebovichMr. and Mrs. Richard C. RyanMr. Mitch StammMs. Irma StarrMrs. Laurie M. SybertzMr. Timothy TurnerMr. and Mrs. Jay WeissMr. and Mrs. Allen ZubatkinAlden Park Bar & GrillCafe StregaCape Rep TheatreCatania Hospitality GroupCoast of Maine

Columbus Restaurant Group (Traif Corp.)ConServ Group, Inc.Cosentino Center BostonDomenic’s Clothing and TuxedosEasCare AmbulanceEntergy - Pilgrim StationFor the JourneyGoodwin Procter, LLPGreen Briar Jam KitchenGuilty BakeryHeritage Museums and GardensHuntington Theatre CompanyHy-Line CruisesKase KraftsKing Arthur FlourLobster Hut of PlymouthMartha’s Bicycles & FitnessMayflower Brewing CompanyMorrison’s Home & GardenPhillips Tree RemovalPiantedosi’s Butcher ShopPilgrim Belle Cruises, LLCPilgrim Sands on Long BeachPlymouth Country ClubPlymouth Farmer’s MarketPort BistroRevels, Inc.Setting the SpaceSouth Shore Living MagazineStoneTekThe Witch MovieThe Gamm TheatreThe Mission ProductionsThe Plimoth Knitters ClubTrader Joe’sTuscany TavernTwelve TribesYankee MagazineLimbaugh III

SU P PO RT E RS

Corporate, Foundation and Government Supporters

Abbot and Dorothy H. Stevens FoundationAboutJobs.comAmazonSmileBNY Mellon Community PartnershipBoston Show ServicesBP Matching Fund ProgramButterall Law Firm, LLCCitizens Charitable FoundationCommonwealth of MassachusettsConserv, Inc.David Greenewalt Charitable TrustDudley J. Godfrey Jr. 2001 TrustDunlap’s Propane, Inc.Eastern Bank Charitable FoundationeBay Foundation Employee Engagement FundExxon Mobil FoundationFidelity Charitable Gift FundGardinor Prunaret FoundationGE FoundationHenry Hornblower Fund, Inc.Highland Street Foundation

Hilton Garden InnHoneywell InternationalIBM Corporation - Matching Gifts ProgramJewish Community FoundationKingston OilL. Knife & Son Inc.Maine Community FoundationMary Elizabeth Pearce FoundationMassachusetts Cultural CouncilMcGladrey LLPMorgan StanleyNational Endowment for the HumanitiesNew England BiolabsNSTAR FoundationOffice of Community Development - PlymouthPaul & Virginia Cabot Charitable TrustPitney Bowes Giving StationPlymouth County Development CouncilPlymouth Industrial Development CorporationPlymouth Sails RealtyRoberta M. Childs Charitable FoundationSchrafft Charitable TrustShell Oil CompanySidney Stern Memorial TrustSMBC Global Foundation, Inc.State Street Bank & Trust Co.Tedeschi Food Shops, Inc.The Champlin FoundationsThe Clifford FoundationThe Edgar & Pauline Main Family FoundationThe Ellison FoundationThe Foundation for Creative AchievementThe Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation, Inc.The International EducatorThe LeBaron FoundationThe Martha R. & Susan I. Seger FoundationThe Nichols TrustThree Guineas FundTyco Employee Matching Gifts ProgramVivint Solar Developer, LLCYawkey Foundation

Gifts listed in each report were received between January 1 and December 31, 2014. Every effort has been made to ensure this report is accurate. We would appreciate any errors or omissions to be brought to the attention of the Development Office by contacting Courtney Roy-Branigan, Director of Development, at 508-746-1622 ext. 8203 so we may correct our records.

Stephen B. Brodeur • Chairman, Board of TrusteesCatherine C. Brawer

Peter FrameSarah Fuller

Thomas F. Gloster IIIRobert A. GraffGordon Harris

Sheila Slocum HollisMartha S. MugarJoanne M. NikitasJohn A. Peters, Jr.

David R. Pokross, Jr.Edward T. RussellRichard H. Sgarzi

Darice G. WarehamBarbara V. Weidlich

J. Cedric Woods

T R U S T E E S

H O N O R A RY T R U S T E E S

Laurance V. AllenCarol E. Anzuoni

Margery B. AthertonPatricia A. Ellis

Marianne H. EllisonHarry P. Folger III

Henry Clay Gibson IIIFrank W. Harris III

Breton HornblowerRalph Hornblower IIIRichard HornblowerChristopher Hussey

Ruth Isabella Gardner LamereNorma K. LockwoodJoseph M. Meany, Jr.Peter L. N. Padfield

Joseph PowellKeith J. Pratt

M U S E U M C O U N C I LDonald P. QuinnKeith A. Quinn

Jane K. ReardonMary Bartlett Reynolds

Charles N. RobinsonPowell Robinson, Jr.

Adrian SmallGeoffrey T. Stewart

Edward Delano SullivanJudith M. Swan

Alice C. TealRichard Thaler, Jr.David C. Thorpe

Lydia B. TollCharles F. Vandini

Barbara K. WheatonJohn Winslow

Shirley W. AmoryMalabar Hornblower Brewster

Holbrook R. DavisLady Margaret Greta Griffiths

Douglas E. HartK. Prescott LowDavid A. MittellAnne M. MorganMilton L. Penn

Richard C. Walton

guests in mind would not have been possible without the enthusiasm and generous support from our board and other donors. Having successfully raised the $1.2 million needed for this priority capital project, we were able to check off one of the major infrastructure projects in the Museum’s current strategic plan.

Another major highlight was the NEH conference in October which brought together a panel of scholars whose research and insights are helping us to think in new ways about an interpretive master plan for the Museum. (Stay tuned for 2015 and beyond!)

Trustees Jane K. Reardon and Richard Thaler, having reached their term limits, moved off the board, but not too far. Fortunately for Plimoth Plantation both Jane and Richard agreed to serve on the Museum Council as non-voting board members. We are deeply grateful for their years of generous service to the Museum.

In December, Mayflower II left Plymouth harbor for a winter’s stay in Mystic, Connecticut at Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Approaching 60 years old, we know it’s time for some major work on the ship. A complete marine survey, including an out of water survey with all the ballast (131 tons) removed will reveal the extent and cost of the restoration work that lies ahead for this iconic ship. We want to be sure she is sound and seaworthy and continues to sail. We want the ship to look her best for 2020, but even more important, we want to ensure that the ship will still be here for her 100th birthday and beyond.

2014 at Plimoth Plantation was a year of revelations in living history. After 67 years of studying the past, recreating the early history of our Nation, and reviving and preserving the life-ways of Native and Colonial New England, Plimoth Plantation continues to ‘learn something old every day’ and to weave new threads, both subtle and bright, into the rich tapestry of exhibits, programs, events, conferences, collections and research that together are Plimoth Plantation. This is how we craft history.

On behalf of the Museum, we sincerely thank all of our volunteers, members and donors, and also, especially, our wonderful staff and Board of Trustees. It is their expertise, devotion and generosity that make Plimoth Plantation a world-renowned leader in its field.

STEVE BRODEURCHAIRMAN

ELLIE DONOVANEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Y EA R I N R EV I EW

The Museum was underway before the 2014 season officially began. In early March, Mayflower II sailed for The Pilgrims, a two-hour documentary written and directed by celebrated filmmaker Ric Burns for the PBS series American Experience. Although the ship is almost 60 years old, only a few minutes of film exist showing Mayflower II under sail without being surrounded by a flotilla of leisure boats. This time, without fanfare, the ship slipped quietly out of her berth at dawn, giving aerial photographers the chance to film more than ninety minutes of the solitary ship crossing Cape Cod Bay. Filming on the Museum’s historical sites followed, with Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees portraying Governor William Bradford. The Pilgrims is a BBC-PBS co-production and is scheduled to air internationally in November 2015. The film has also been named a signature project for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ 50th Anniversary.

Shakespeare at Plimoth Plantation found an intimate new home in the 17th-Century English Village with August performances in the Fort/Meetinghouse. The atmospheric building glowed with garlands of light. Plimoth Players commissioned its first original work, a two-actor piece called Shakespeare’s Guide for Lovers drawn from thirteen plays. Playwright-performer Annie Arthur became the company’s first female actor as the Plimoth Players’ fifth season expanded the Museum’s approach to presenting the Bard. Without losing commitment to historically-informed performance theater, Plimoth Plantation strives for innovation. A sold out performance called If Music Be Love Sing On featured the Museum’s actors in a Shakespeare cabaret that combined the Bard’s romances, comedies and sonnets with contemporary American music.

With the approach of Thanksgiving, media attention always increases, but 2014 featured high visibility projects. The 17th-Century English Village served as a site for the twelfth season of Bravo’s Top Chef. While sampling dishes from seven contestants, host Padma Lakshmi and celebrity judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, dined with Museum staff. The chefs were challenged to cook over fire using Colonial and Native hearths as well as 17th-century implements and pots. In late summer, the Gosselin family from TLC’s popular reality show Kate Plus Eight visited, and Kate Gosselin tweeted her delight with the Museum during the broadcast. Plimoth Plantation also appeared on screens at

the Sundance Film Festival, having served as consultants and as a location for Rob Eggers’ first feature length film The Witch. Eggers won Best Direction in the United States Dramatic category.

Even with all of the year’s activities, there was still time for scholarship, introspection and continuing to position Plimoth Plantation as a leader in multi-disciplinary inquiry on the 17th-century Atlantic World, incorporating history, the arts, humanities and sciences. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Plimoth Plantation $60,000 in support of an October planning conference to initiate the Museum’s process of creating a new interpretive plan. Seventeen academics from across the country as well as regional community leaders gathered at the Museum for two and a half days. They participated in three scholarly discussions open to Trustees, staff and Museum members. Plimoth Plantation also opened these content-rich conversations to researchers, classroom teachers, college students and general public.

These high level conversations advanced the Museum’s university affiliations, strengthened

ties with leading academics and provided the major themes and research directives for the development of the interpretive plan that will see Plimoth Plantation through four major anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of Mayflower II’s transatlantic sail (2017), the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landing and the Mayflower Compact (2020), the 400th anniversary of the First Thanksgiving (2021) and the 75th anniversary of Plimoth Plantation (2022).

They Knew They Were Pilgrim Descendants: Family History Comes AliveOn a crystal clear September evening, Plimoth Plantation hosted over 150 Mayflower descendants aboard Mayflower II, the Museum’s full-scale reproduction of the ship that brought their Pilgrim ancestors to New England almost 400 years ago. The guests, many of whom were in Plymouth for the Triennial Congress of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, enjoyed the vibrant night sky while savoring Pilgrim foods and sipping a “Mayflower Sunset” – the evening’s signature cocktail. In the ship’s Great Cabin, with guidance from Governor John Carver, they tried their hand at signing a personal copy of the Mayflower Compact with quill and ink. Descendants were delighted to meet many of their ancestors that evening, portrayed by the Museum’s talented roleplayers.

Plimoth Cinema Goes Digital!

Plimoth Cinema is flourishing, thanks to loyal audiences and passionate supporters. Across the country, art houses showing independent films are failing due to expensive studio demands for conversion to digital projection systems. As of June, Plimoth Cinema has the latest technology. In April, a sellout fundraiser

featuring Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper and noted actress and author Marianne Leone Cooper, demonstrated the Cooper family’s community spirit. They secured a special screening of his Oscar-nominated film August, Osage County. Jared Bowen, the host of Open Studio on WGBH, led a question and answer session with Chris Cooper. The April evening also launched a Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its goal.

Restoring the Museum’s Colonial Kitchen GardensThe Museum’s gardens delight the senses, invigorate the spirit and educate the mind. With support from the Amory Family Garden Fund, Plimoth Plantation began an ambitious project, the restoration of thirteen kitchen gardens in the 17th-CenturyEnglish Village.

Volunteers and staff replaced all garden soil with fresh compost, rebuilt and restored stone and wooden raised beds, and cleared invasive grasses and plants along walkways at each exhibit. Due to ongoing issues with woodchucks burrowing and rabbits feasting in the gardens, heritage plants are now started and maintained at the Museum’s Horticulture Center and transplanted as needed throughout the season.

Future plans include the expansion of surgeon Samuel Fuller’s garden in the 17th-Century English Village, which represents a Colonial medicinal garden as it may have looked in early Plymouth. The herb and vegetable gardens are key elements in the Village exhibit’s exploration of 17th-century health, foodways, and world view.

The Amory Family Garden Fund was established in 2011 in honor of beloved longtime trustee Shirley Amory. The fund provides ongoing support for horticultural exhibits, garden restoration and maintenance at Plimoth Plantation. Along with additional donations to the fund from New England Farm and Garden, various businesses and individuals, the Amory Family Garden Fund has seeded many blossoming projects. Plimoth Plantation is eternally grateful for the Amory family’s generosity.

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Nestled on Town Brook, Plimoth Grist Mill is the most dramatic place to witness the annual spectacle of

alewife (river herring) migration. Each spring over 100,000 alewives ascend the mill’s fishway on their trip to spawn in Billington Sea (a large fresh water pond), then pass by the mill again on their return trip to the ocean. When Tisquantum taught the Pilgrims how to plant maize in the spring of 1621, he showed them how to fertilize tired fields by burying alewives in each corn mound.

In April, the Herring Run Festival celebrated the hardy fish that survives despite the challenges of dammed rivers and fish ladders in disrepair. The two-day event was a collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the town of Plymouth and state agencies. Museum guests visited with scientists to learn about efforts to restore herring populations, and helped scientists in collecting valuable data by counting fish. The festival featured tours of the fish run, hands-on activities for families, food by local chefs and musical performances. Guests sampled the Museum’s favorite corn dishes. There was a director’s cut screening of the River Herring Migration Series followed by

a discussion with the filmmaker and wildlife researchers.

With help from Baystate Organic Certifiers, Museum staff became certified organic food handlers, an accomplishment that allows Plimoth Plantation to put USDA Certified Organic on the bags of meal and sampe (grits) stone-ground with water power at the Plimoth Grist Mill.

There were also advances made in offering guests and local restaurants varied types of organic heirloom corn. Plimoth Grist Mill staff worked with a local farmer to produce seed stock for Plimoth Flint Corn, a variety that was developed for Plimoth Plantation in the 1980s. The corn crosses heirloom Narragansett White Tip Flint with a multicolored corn to produce an eight row corn that matches the descriptions of the corn grown in 17th-century New England.

WA M PA NOAG H O M ES I T E

In May, United States Congressman William R. Keating, honored the Museum’s Indigenous Program in a speech delivered

to the House of Representatives. He urged his colleagues and constituents to see the mishoon (a traditional Native American canoe) that Plimoth Plantation had presented to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. The mishoon was the cover story of the Spring issue of The Affiliates: News About Smithsonian Affiliates. Plimoth Plantation’s Native educators were featured at the Congressional Night at the Smithsonian. The evening was called “Celebrating World Cultures” and drew 2,000 guests including Capitol Hill legislators, their staffs, interns and families.

At the height of the Thanksgiving season, the Museum served as a high-profile educational provider during the 94th National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. This two-day event was based at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center and assembled 4,000 K-12 educators from across the country. Plimoth Plantation offered sellout pre-and post-conference professional development

days in Plymouth. They featured guided tours of the Wampanoag and Colonial sites and Plymouth waterfront, scholarly panels on Native history and 17th-century theme dining. In addition to Plimoth Plantation’s popular historic immersion experience at the Hynes Convention Center, three of the Museum’s Native educators spoke on indigenous technology, the First Thanksgiving and the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project.

Congratulations to Darius Coombs, Associate Director of the Wampanoag Indigenous Program, for receiving an Excellence Award from the New England Museum Association (NEMA) for his extraordinary dedication to sharing knowledge about Wampanoag cultural heritage and his inspiring leadership in transforming Native history interpretation at Plimoth Plantation. This was the inaugural year for the NEMA Excellence Award.

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The Museum’s living history sites are handmade worlds. They are crafted by talented artisans who revive and

teach historical technologies. These hands-on scholars recover lost ways of life and preserve ancient crafts, trades and domestic skills.

Each Native and Colonial structure at Plimoth Plantation is based on written or pictorial records, archaeological evidence and sometimes extant 17th-century buildings. Their furnishings, textiles and small objects of everyday life are exact reproductions based on original artifacts. Accurate, three dimensional re-creation is a process of historical discovery and its findings are cause for excitement Richard Harris, a noted architectural historian

said, “The next significant step in unraveling the mysteries of the past will be made by those who devote their talents to re-creating historic material worlds.”

A new reproduction Pilgrim dwelling opened in September. It represents Francis and Hester Cooke’s house and garden. The Cooke house opening highlighted the value of preserving traditional crafts and trades.

Speaking to assembled guests and staff, Executive Director Ellie Donovan said, “Our society in general seems to attach only monetary value to things and in so doing we lose touch with their true value – the accumulated knowledge, patience, skill, time,

love and commitment that go into building a house or making anything by hand.” Museum Members, supporters of the project and guests attended a housewarming picnic and visited with role players portraying Francis, Hester and Jane Cooke. After lunch, guests toured the newly opened Cooke House with the Museum’s artisans, and assisted exhibit staff in “staging the house” with reproductions of the Cooke family’s treasured possessions.

This year, the Palisade gate was opened for noted author and Boston Globe correspondent Ethan Gilsdorf who spent a day as a Pilgrim experiencing the handmade world of the 17th century. Donning period clothing crafted by our artisans, Gilsdorf fully immersed himself into life in Plymouth Colony.

Another distinguished visitor – renowned sampler expert Joanne Harvey – came to Plimoth Plantation to revive and preserve historical crafts through a weekend of workshops and lectures with dozens of the Nation’s finest embroiderers in attendance.

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There might be earlier Colonial experiences in America, but none touches the heart like Plymouth’s

story. No ship resonates in our national imagination as Mayflower does. The drama of a small, solitary ship on a stormy sea, carrying families searching for freedom and prosperity, symbolizes the journey made by every immigrant to these shores. It is the voyage that made a Nation.

In December, Plimoth Plantation and Mystic Seaport announced a collaborative project to restore and repair Mayflower II, the full-scale reproduction of the ship that brought the Pilgrims in 1620. Both museums are among the country’s most popular history destinations and both are Smithsonian Affiliates. Work on Plimoth Plantation’s historic tall ship will take place at Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard and will adhere to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Vessel Preservation Projects. Inspections in 2013 revealed that Mayflower II is in need of a major refit, which is normal for a nearly sixty-

year-old wooden ship and one whose decks have been visited by more than 25,000,000 guests.

Mayflower II arrived in Connecticut on a bitterly cold December day, yet the banks of the Mystic River were lined with several hundred onlookers, some of whom had seen the ship as children when Mayflower II toured the East Coast in 1957. Press coverage was abundant. Everyone knew they were in the presence of an American treasure and that the work of restoring Mayflower II is critical to preserving our national memory.

The shipwrights from both museums approach their task with a combination of skill and reverence – remembering the original Pilgrim voyage as well as the daring transatlantic crossing that Mayflower II made in 1957. Work immediately began on a multi-year restoration plan, honoring the ship’s original construction and using traditional methods with the goal of restoring the ship to her original condition.

“For me, the restoration of Mayflower II is a dream come true,” says Whit. “In the months and years to come we will restore and preserve this iconic ship so that future generations can continue to appreciate its beauty, significance and history.”

Mayflower II’s future vitality depends on continual preservation. The significant restoration of the fifty-seven-year-old wooden ship is scheduled for completion prior to 2020, the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival.

In July, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pledged $2,000,000 towards Mayflower II preservation. Executive Director Ellie Donovan said, “Plimoth Plantation greatly appreciates the enormous support for Mayflower II, especially from the Massachusetts State leadership for ensuring a major part of funding her restoration.”

WELCOMEABOARD!Whit Perry is Plimoth Plantation’s new Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations. He plays a pivotal role in the Museum’s progress toward 2020. Whit came to Plimoth Plantation with over thirty years of experience working with wooden boats. His most recent post was at Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, where he maintained and operated three square-rigged vessels.

Whit has a long history with ships and sailing, having journeyed all over the North Atlantic, Caribbean and the Mediterranean. He has commanded many different types of vessels, from small catboats to square riggers, schooners and sloops.

Left to Right: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Plimoth Plantation Executive Director Ellie Donovan, Plimoth Plantation Deputy Executive Director Richard Pickering, Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray

C RA FT C E N T E R

As the hub of the Museum’s educational experience, our Craft Center renovation and expansion was mission critical. This major investment in infrastructure and program development enhanced workspaces for Plimoth Plantation’s artisans and apprentices, added new hands-on activities and enabled the creation of the Plimoth Bread Company. An outdoor education pavilion for programs and performances was also completed. The Craft Center now offers improved amenities as well as an expanded Museum shop that features work by the Museum’s artisans. This stunning structure is a dynamic, participatory nucleus for a visit to Plimoth Plantation – one that showcases historical arts and technologies essential to the Native and European people in 17th-century New England.

The Craft Center renovation was funded in part by a matching grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund – a program of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, administered through a collaborative arrangement between MassDevelopment and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Additional funding for the project was generously provided by the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund, the Plymouth Industrial Development Corporation and a number of private donors including a leadership gift from Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Sheehan in honor of Domero and Sylvia Cortelli. The Museum achieved its goal of raising the $1.2 million needed for the project and is deeply grateful to the donors for their generous support.

Plimoth Plantation’s commitment to broadening the Museum’s representation of historical

technologies gave rise to the Plimoth Bread Company. Inspired by the Museum’s celebrated 17th-century foodways and hearth cooking programs, the Plimoth Bread Company offers Museum guests the opportunity to taste and purchase bread baked in the Craft Center’s wood-fired clay oven. Every day artisans re-create 17th-century baking techniques. The Museum’s breads, pies and tarts are created from or inspired by authentic 17th-century recipes.

In keeping with Plimoth Plantation’s educational mission and living history approach, Plimoth Bread Company is an

interactive exhibit where bread making is explored through historical, cultural, scientific, technological and philosophical perspectives. The Plimoth Bread Company’s programming as well as its baked goods, reflect both Native and English food culture. Daily demonstrations, a calendar of special events, hands-on classes and workshops, round out the bakery exhibit.

Plimoth Plantation encourages making history at home. Try the Plimoth Bread Company’s Caramel Apple Pie recipe on the following page.

P L I M OT H B R EA D CO.

Photo Courtesy of the Boston Globe

HISTORY IN THE BAKING!Foodways historian and Artisan Baker Dr. Tani Mauriello joined the staff in May. She holds a DPhil in British History from Oxford University. “Plimoth Plantation is the only place I could combine my culinary and academic interests,” says Tani. “I always thought that I would do history, but never thought I could do history and food.”

Caramel Apple PieDespite the many steps, this pie is pretty easy, but the timing can be tricky, so it’s best if two people can work on it together. Using a hot water crust is a nod to the 17th century, and the shortening, makes this hot water crust tender and delectable. This makes one 9-inch pie, with leftover caramel to keep for ice cream or for dipping fruit slices when reheated.

FILLING:3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced3 Golden Delicious or Braeburn apples (or your favorite sweet baking apple), peeled, cored, thinly sliced (for a deep dish pie plate, use 8 apples)1/4 tsp cinnamon1/2 cup unsalted butter3 tbsp all-purpose flour1/2 cup white sugar1/2 cup brown sugar1/4 cup water

CRUST:3/4 cup shortening (108 grams)1/2 tsp salt1 tsp milk1/4 cup boiling water2 cups all purpose flour

DIRECTIONS:1. Place apple slices in large bowl and mix with cinnamon. Set aside.

2. Ideally, have one person work on the caramel sauce while the other makes the crust. If an extra set of hands is not available, make crust first.

3. In a separate bowl with deep sides, whisk shortening, salt, milk and boiling water with a fork until creamy and relatively lump-free.

4. Add flour and fold in roughly using a rubber spatula to continually scrape sides of bowl while mixing.

5. Working quickly, divide dough in half* and roll out dough for bottom crust between waxed paper (This dough can get brittle as it cools, using the waxed paper to transfer it into the pie plate helps. Remove top sheet of paper, flip crust upside down and adjust over pie plate. Line pie plate and peel off remaining paper, trying to leave an inch of overhang around the edges). Place pie plate with bottom crust on a lined baking sheet. *If using a deep dish pie plate, use two-thirds of the dough for the bottom crust.

6. Roll out dough for top crust between sheets of waxed paper. Decide if you want a top crust with cut-outs from a cookie cutter or a lattice top. Remove top layer of paper, stamp out shapes or cut strips now, leaving the waxed paper beneath crust, and re-cover with waxed paper to help keep dough warm and pliable.

7. Preheat oven to 425 degrees and move on to making the sauce, melt butter in a saucepan, then stir in flour to make a paste. Add the sugars, then water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for five minutes, stirring very frequently.

8. When sauce is done simmering, pour half of it over the apple slices in the bowl and combine, coating the slices well, then pour slices into pie plate.

9. Remove waxed paper and arrange top crust over apples, and seal edges (wet fingers slightly while sealing if the dough won’t stick together).

10. Using a pastry brush and the other half of the sauce, generously coat the top crust with caramel sauce and then carefully pour the remaining sauce through the holes or lattice work of the top crust, filling in the gaps of the apple slices, until the sauce level reaches a little below the crust.

11. Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees F. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake for a further 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool and enjoy!

12. Serving suggestions: Add a slice of cheddar to the top because “Apple pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze.”

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#icrafthistory was a landmark celebration in the Museum’s history, a four-day event that highlighted the grand opening of the renovated Craft Center and the all-new Plimoth Bread Company.

Museum guests learned about many forms of craft that are integral to a living history museum, as well as those that enrich our contemporary lives.

As the symbolic hearth of the community, Plimoth Plantation wanted everyone to be here for the Craft Center’s housewarming. On Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and September 28, Plymouth residents were admitted free, and Massachusetts residents could purchase half-priced admission to Plimoth Plantation, Plimoth Grist Mill, and Mayflower II.

With media sponsorship by Yankee magazine, the grand opening explored and celebrated all types of craft makers through exhibits, demonstrations and presentations. The weekend also encouraged the public to spotlight their own artistic contributions by using the hashtag #icrafthistory throughout the Museum’s social media channels.

In addition to the reinstallation of Plimoth Plantation artisan exhibits in the Craft Center, the event brought together distinctive guest craftspeople across a wide range of disciplines to demonstrate and teach diverse skills. Weaving, furniture inlaying, rug hooking, beer brewing, and scrimshaw were some of the special exhibits. The September weather was ideal and painters worked en plein air

throughout the Museum grounds. The Plimoth Bread Company debuted with its new wood-fired clay oven and a variety of 17th-century baked goods including a signature bread created by food historian and baker, Tani Mauriello, PhD.

Live music played throughout all Museum sites during the weekend, starting off with a performance by the Groovalattos – a soul – funk band comprising award-winning studio and touring musicians and singers from the Cherokee, Choctaw and Wampanoag communities. Other highlights included a distinguished lecture series, an Imagination Station with kids’ activities such as wampum and sgraffito pottery making and a special Breakfast with the Baker featuring breads warm from the oven.

F I NA NC I A L OV E RV I EW

ASSETS

CURRENT ASSETS Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 109,161Retail Inventory, net 284,141Contributions Receivable, net 787,624Accounts and Other Receivables 119,160Prepaid Expenses 54,370Total current assets 1,354,456

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT Site Development and Buildings 16,444,625Mayflower II 2,549,18517th-Century English Village Houses 1,701,020Other Exhibits 732,389Office Furniture and Equipment 688,287Construction in Progress 180,321Leasehold Improvements 21,946TOTAL 22,317,773Accumulated Depreciation (12,071,757)PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET 10,246,016

OTHER ASSETS Cash Restricted to Investment in Property & Equipment 80,000Contributions Receivable, net 1,326,500Bond Issuance Costs, net 150,441Other assets 16,205Investments 7,170,591Beneficial Interest in Perpetual Trust 2,652,003TOTAL OTHER ASSETS 11,395,740

TOTAL ASSETS $ 22,996,212

Fiscal year ending December 31, 2014

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES Line of Credit $ 492,218 Current Portion of Bonds Payable 182,400Current Portion of Note Payable 39,736Current Portion of Capital Lease Obligation 24,111Accounts Payable 388,181Accrued Expenses 116,030TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 1,242,676

OTHER LIABILITIES Bonds Payable, net of Current Portion 4,546,132Note Payable, net of Current Portion 166,757Capital Lease Obligation, net of Current Portion 40,830Interest Rate Swap Agreement 150,799TOTAL OTHER LIABILITIES 4,904,518

TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 6,147,194

NET ASSETS Unrestricted net assets Attributable to Operations

and net Investment in Plant 6,188,143Board designated funds 465,183TOTAL UNRESTRICTED 6,653,326Temporarily restricted 3,376,449Permanently restricted 6,819,243

TOTAL NET ASSETS $ 16,849,018

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 22,996,212

GIFTS RAISED BY SOURCE

77.5%CORPORATE &GOVERNMENT

5.5%MEMBERSHIP

12.1%FOUNDATIONS

5.0%INDIVIDUALS

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

REVENUES, GRANTS AND SUPPORTAdmissionsRetail Merchandise SalesGrants and ContributionsMembershipsFunction and Facility RentalsEducational ProgramsContributed ServicesInvestment IncomeOther IncomeLoss on Disposal of Property and EquipmentDistribution from Beneficial Interest

in Perpetual TrustNet Assets Released from Restrictions

TOTAL REVENUES, GRANTS AND SUPPORT

EXPENSES17th-Century English Village ExhibitGeneral and AdministrativeCost of Merchandise SoldWampanoag Indigenous Program ExhibitRetailMarketingMuseum Program SupportCraft Center and Grist Mill ExhibitsEducationDevelopmentMayflower II ExhibitMembership

TOTAL EXPENSE

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS FROMOPERATING ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted

$ 4,825,6402,083,092

646,201182,465193,293306,339211,065

13,275318,842

(139,103)

120,7061,990,773

$ 10,752,588

$ 2,111,2081,894,609

948,072760,449723,878667,457573,742

498,496418,343351,918342,199

12,772

$ 9,303,143

$ 1,449,445

TemporarilyRestricted

$ --

2,553,657----

88,563--

-(1,990,773)

$ 651,447

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-

$ 651,447

PermanentlyRestricted

$ --

27,000-------

--

$ 27,000

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-

$ 27,000

Total

$ 4,825,6402,083,0923,226,858

182,465193,293306,339211,065101,838318,842

(139,103)

120,7060

$ 11,431,035

$ 2,111,2081,894,609

948,072760,449723,878667,457573,742

498,496418,343351,918342,199

12,772

$ 9,303,143

$ 2,127,892

F I NA NC I A L OV E RV I EW

NON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)on Investments

Change in Fair Value of BeneficialInterest in Perpetual Trust

Net Gain (Loss) on Interest RateSwap Agreement

TOTAL EXPENSE NON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS FROMNON-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR

Unrestricted

$ (32,269)

-

165,169

$ 132,900

$ 1,582,345

$ 5,070,981

$ 6,653,326

TemporarilyRestricted

$ 47,260

-

-

$ 47,260

$ 698,707

$ 2,677,742

$ 3,376,449

PermanentlyRestricted

-

(61,394)

-

$ (61,394)

$ (34,394)

$ 6,853,637

$ 6,819,243

Total

$ 14,991

(61,394)

165,169

$ 118,766

$ 2,246,658

$ 14,602,360

$ 16,849,018

ADMISSIONS & RETAIL

GIFTS & CONTRIBUTIONS

EDUCATION & OTHERPROGRAMS

INVESTMENT INCOME, DISTRIBUTION & LOSS ON DISPOSAL OF PROPERTYAND EQUIPMENT

TOTAL REVENUE:

60.4% 31.7% 7.2% .7%

G I V E

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Twelve Tribes Project Growth Plymouth North HS Suzanne Adam Olyvia Adams Maryellen Anastasia

Jocelyn Anderson Colleen Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Argus Elaine L. Argus Anne Arthur Master Paul

Atchison Ella Atchison Dr. Penny Axelrod Eve Ayling Amy Bates Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beane Claudia M.

Bett Jane Bishop Margaret Blackwell Vivian Bolt Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bolton Deborah Botelho Mr. and

Mrs. Thomas Bott Ricarda B. Bowser Piper Brossard Caris Brown Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brush Mr. and Mrs.

Dave Buck Lynne P. Buckley Diane Budge Laura Busky Barbara Cain Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carpenter Peggy

Church Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coco Alexander Coffey Mr. and Mrs. John Cook Cherie Cormier Patricia Correa

Tim Cosseboom Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Costa Marion Crocker Beth M. Croll Jane Kowal Carolyn Crowell

Suzanne de Lesdernier Ira Dearing Ed DeFelice Peggy Dixon Bridget Donahue Melodie Dustin Kevin P.

England Mr. and Mrs. Russell Enos Emma Esterman Skyler Falcone Jackie Fee Elizabeth Feldman Mr. and

Mrs. Gary Ferrari David Finneran David Fitzgerald Celia Fitzgerald Stephen Fletcher Susan Flier Libby Forni

Carol C. Fortini Mary Gallant Jacquelin Giaccaglia Kathryn Gloster Rose Gomes Paula Goodwin Alice Gray

Linda Green Lorraine Griffin Nancy Grimm Elizabeth Halloran Mr. and Mrs. Francis Harrington Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Hicks Ashley Holm Robert Howard Anne Lynch Donald B. Ingram Mary Irving Bob Jaeger Bertha

Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jennings Marjorie Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jordan Heather Kamataris

Carole Kanter Michael Kaup Mary Keefe Paul Kite Katherine Kowaloff Nancy Kronenberg Pamela La Crosse

Elizabeth Laitinen Eva Landsberg Jenny Laughlin Isabelle Lipton Lizabeth Loring Anita MacKinnon Patrick

Maney Hiroko Massarelli Mary McGonagle Jennifer Moreland Chelsea Morris Mary Mullaney Virginia Murray

Madeleine Muzdakis Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Maney Nathan Nelson-Maney Shannon Nelson-Maney Shayna

Marie Newman Celia Nolan Taylor O’Leary Mr. and Mrs. Arne Olsen-Storvik Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson

Shannon O’Neill Christine O’Neill John Oney Jake Palenstijn Dean Palenstijn Terry Parekh Sarah Peck Nicole

Perkins C. Dylan Perry Doris Pike Nancy Pratt Barbara Provest Kathleen Quinn-Kortis Sara Rosenberry

Charlotte Russell Rick and Betsy Ryan Elizabeth J. Sander Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Savery Karen Schwenk Diane

Shagoury Isabella Silvia Alexandra Sliwoski Deborah Smith Marion Smith Linda Snook Janette Somerville

Laurie Sybertz Cynthia Sykes Susan Targrove Mrs. and Mr. Sarah Tibbetts Kathy Tripi Mrs. and Mr. Anne

E. Verre Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vogenberger Dolores Wallick Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Ward Lucille Weiss

Shawn Westcott Diane Wheaton Stacie Williams Diane Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Allen Zubatkin Susan Zubatkin

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INTRODUCING:

VOLUNTEER OFTHE YEAR

JACKIE FEE

Jacqueline Fee, our 2014 Volunteer of the Year, worked with many other dedicated volunteers from the Greater Boston Knitting Guild and the Weavers Guild of Boston in a collaborative project over a period of several years. This meticulous research included the analysis of 17th-century knitted items and pictorial evidence. The resulting patterns, all tested and refined by experienced knitters, led to the publication this year of Knitted Garb: Inspired by the Originals: Designs for Plimoth Plantation and Beyond. At a recent event honoring Jackie, the Museum’s Executive Director said “In particular we wish to acknowledge with great admiration, respect and affection Jackie Fee whose mastery of the material, and whose skill and dedication to her art, made this collection of patterns possible.“

The story of how Jackie became a Plimoth Plantation volunteer began over three decades ago. It started in 1981 when her daughter, Nancy Fee Cook, became manager of the Museum’s Costumes and Furnishings Department. Nancy brought to her mother’s attention a monograph entitled 17th Century Knitting Patterns as adapted for Plimoth Plantation, self-published by The Weavers’ Guild of Boston. In Jackie’s words; “As one who had decided to limit my knitting to seamless, circular construction, I was overjoyed to

discover that the items included in thebooklet were all worked ‘ in the round,’ being the same construction as the originals.”

Soon thereafter, Jackie wrote a definitive instructional knitting book titled The Sweater Workshop that was published in 1983 and is on its second edition. Plimoth Plantation is proud to offer both of her books in our gift shop, as well as Plimoth Plantation Knitted Waistcoat kits. It is a labor of love for her to “bring the thrill of creative knitting to a whole new generation of knitters.” Some 90,000 knitters who own The Sweater Workshop are a testament to Jackie’s ability to teachand inspire.

In 2010, when Jackie joined the newly formed Plimoth Knitters’ Club at Plimoth Plantation, little did she know that her past experience documenting and explaining knitting techniques would be just the remedy needed for the inconsistent patterns and terminology the club encountered. Over the next four years, Jackie began revising each pattern used by club members. More volunteers joined the effort to knit for the museum program and to test patterns. When she shared news of the Plimoth Knitters’ Club with the Greater Boston Knitting Guild, their members also started volunteering their time and expertise. They meet in the Visitor Center once a month to display the knitted 17th-century items, answer visitors’ questions and create new pieces for the Plimoth Plantation living history exhibits.

Plimoth Plantation is forever grateful to Jackie for sharing with us her considerable talent in creating knitted pieces and patterns for the Museum’s collection and exhibits, but more importantly, for exemplifying the impact volunteers have at Plimoth Plantation.

WALTER AMORY1924 - 2014Walter was an accomplished sailor, rower and maker of intricate model ships. He spent his career as an engineer and entrepreneur, helping control storm damage, rebuilding dams and creating water treatment and water storage facilities. Walter was deeply devoted to the town of Duxbury where he founded Amory Engineers in 1973, helped start the Duxbury Bay Maritime School and contributed his expertise in preserving local beaches. He graduated from Groton School in 1942 and entered the Navy ROTC program at Harvard University where he received his BA. He served in the US Navy during the Second World War, then returned to Harvard to complete his master’s degree in structural engineering. His wife Shirley served as a Plimoth Plantation trustee from 1995 to 2003 and she is now an Honorary Trustee. They married in 1947. The Amory Family Garden Fund makes the Museum a place of beauty, contemplation and education for guests.

BRENDA BALBONI1938 - 2014Brenda generously supported the Museum through her family business, Pioppi’s Package Store, which was founded in Plymouth more than eighty years ago. She was a lifelong resident of Plymouth and married Dennis Balboni in 1961. Brenda was a Class of 1956 graduate of Plymouth High School and a graduate of Lasalle Junior College. In her early years, she was employed in Boston at State Street Bank.

ELIZABETH “BETSY” SAFE RICHARDS1934 - 2014Betsy was a generous friend to Plimoth Plantation, giving her support and advocacy for the Museum’s advancement. She was the widow of Kenneth Safe, Jr., who served as a Plimoth Plantation trustee and benefactor from 1998 to 2002. The Cranberry Hospice was particularly close to

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Betsy’s heart. She was active in the Friends of Cranberry Hospice’s annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees, a holiday event that was often held at the Museum’s Hornblower Visitor Center. She loved spending time on Duxbury Bay with her grandchildren. She was active in many community clubs and charitable organizations, including the Duxbury Yacht Club, The Chilton Club and Duxbury Garden Club. She is survived by her husband, George Richards.

WILLIAM “BILL” M. RIEGEL1928 - 2014A longtime member and supporter of Plimoth Plantation, Bill spent most of his professional career in the paper, packaging and forest products industry. A graduate of Deerfield Academy and Williams College, he served as a Naval officer in the Sixth Fleet from 1952 to 1955. He later founded Riegel Associates, a management and consulting firm based in Duxbury. He also served as Chairman of the Board of the Bryce Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. Bill served on various boards associated with the paper industry. He was a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club. In his retirement, he was a director of both the Historic Winslow House in Marshfield and the Manomet Center for the Conservation Sciences. He is survived by his wife, Nancy.

DOROTHY CREUTZ1934 - 2014

DONALD MUNSEY1933 - 2014

GEORGE OBUCHON1944 - 2014

JOHN SEARS1930 - 2014

KATHRYN WHITAKER1941 - 2014

“So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of the day in the lone East.” - M. Haskins

I N H O NO R A N DM E M O RY O F

In Memory Of

IN MEMORY OF HOWARD ELLISON ROGERSThe Ellison FoundationIN MEMORY OF DR. FRANCIS LEBARONThe LeBaron FoundationIN MEMORY OF SAM STEWARTDr. William H. AinslieIN MEMORY OF ROGER S. ARNOLDMrs. Marion J. ArnoldIN MEMORY OF DENISE FORDMr. and Mrs. John F. AucelloIN MEMORY OF KAREN SCHWARTZMs. Carol L. BarrIN MEMORY OF DAVID L. NARVER, JR.Mrs. Margaret BlairIN MEMORY OF LAURA ELIZABETH BOECKLEMr. and Mrs. Robert BoeckleIN MEMORY OF JOHN C. BURRINGTONMs. Shannon BurringtonIN MEMORY OF ARTHUR R. CHAPINMr. and Mrs. Thomas F. ChapinIN MEMORY OF MARINA LOUISE HOLMESLANGLOISMs. Elmire L. ConklinIN MEMORY OF GEORGE SOULEMs. Cindy CovellIN MEMORY OF DOROTHY M. CREUTZMr. Edward F. CreutzIN MEMORY OF RICHARD P. HELWIGMrs. Bette J. HelwigIN MEMORY OF PHILIP E. TAYLORMr. and Mrs. James Hoffman IIIIN MEMORY OF GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORDMs. Nancy C. HunterMr. and Mrs. Paul A. PalmerMr. Edgar B. Hardin

IN MEMORY OF LEV W. SWIFT, JR.Ms. Margaret M. JohnsonIN MEMORY OF PEGGY BROOKS SWIFTMs. Margaret M. JohnsonIN MEMORY OF RENA MELAHOURESMs. Elena C. KiriosIN MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER TODD KNUDSENMr. Lewis KnudsenIN MEMORY OF HAROLD B. LA ROQUEMrs. Millicent La Roque LowreyIN MEMORY OF GEORGE KING MANNINGDr. Marcia M. LeeIN MEMORY OF GWEN MEIERMr. Richard P. MeierIN MEMORY OF ALAN V. MOONY, JR.Mrs. Phyllis C. MoonyIN MEMORY OF JAMES E. LEWISMrs. Patricia M. NellisIN MEMORY OF BETSY OEHMEMr. and Mrs. F. Edward Nicolas

IN MEMORY OF MALCOM NORTHAMMr. and Mrs. Jack E. OppasserIN MEMORY OF JUDIE NORTHAM OPPASSERMr. and Mrs. Jack E. OppasserIN MEMORY OF RUTH CARR BARKERMs. Marjorie OsbornIN MEMORY OF LT. WILLIAM PALMERMr. and Mrs. Paul A. PalmerIN MEMORY OF MARJORIE L. PEPPERRev. Donald R. PepperIN MEMORY OF MILES STANDISHMrs. Carolyn PledgerIN MEMORY OF JOHN AND PRISCILLA ALDENMrs. Carolyn PledgerIN MEMORY OF CHARLES MANN CHURCHMr. and Mrs. Wayne V. ReedIN MEMORY OF MARILYN HATCH BEAULIEUMr. and Mrs. Wayne V. ReedIN MEMORY OF RUTH HAYS SMITHMr. D. Alan SmithIN MEMORY OF STEPHEN HOPKINS SNOWDr. Roger L. SnowIN MEMORY OF STEPHEN HAWKINSMrs. Carole SteeleIN MEMORY OF FRANCIS COOKEMrs. Carole SteeleIN MEMORY OF WALTER AMORYMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. StewartIN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BREWSTERMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. Stewart

IN MEMORY OF CAROL CITYMr. and Mrs. George D. WadsworthIN MEMORY OF DICKIEMrs. Susanne WestIN MEMORY OF CHARLES COOLIDGE WITHINGTONMs. Marian H. WithingtonIN MEMORY OF NATHANIEL MORANGMrs. Margaret H. Wonser

In Honor of

IN HONOR OF THOMAS AND KATHRYN GLOSTERJewish Community FoundationMr. Adrian M. Massie, Jr.IN HONOR OF THOMAS ROGERSMr. Kenneth AdamsIN HONOR OF STEPHEN HOPKINSMr. Kenneth AdamsIN HONOR OF MISS EVA LIPTONMs. Eileen B. AndrukIN HONOR OF SHIRLEY AMORYMr. Christopher BarberMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. StewartIN HONOR OF THE BOZEK FAMILYMr. Russell BozekIN HONOR OF RICHARD MOREMrs. Carrie CarpenterIN HONOR OF ROBERT CUSHMANMr. Robert E. Clemons

IN HONOR OF THELMA S. COLLINSMr. Lawrence A. CollinsIN HONOR OF JOHN H. FOSSMrs. Jean W. FossIN HONOR OF VICKI OMANMrs. Gretchen FountainIN HONOR OF CHRISTOPHER AND CAROLINEMr. and Mrs. Mic HernandezIN HONOR OF NANCY KRONENBERGMs. Joan HewlettIN HONOR OF MARY CHILTONMs. Merrilee HindmanIN HONOR OF HUGH BRADFORDHARMONMr. and Mrs. Ted HubbardIN HONOR OF WILLIAM BREWSTERMr. and Mrs. Jack E. HughesIN HONOR OF LUCY GRAVESTALIAFERROMrs. Marilyn KletkeIN HONOR OF SADIE BARNES KNOXMs. Polly C. KnoxIN HONOR OF BEATRICE PEDROMr. and Mrs. Carl LeMarIN HONOR OF JOSEPH GUILFORD FALCONMrs. Frances NergardIN HONOR OF JACKIE FEEMrs. Judith A. O’NeilIN HONOR OF BOB REGANMrs. Helene M. ReganIN HONOR OF JAY LAMONT ROBINSONMr. James RobinsonIN HONOR OF GERDA SAVERYMr. and Mrs. Ralph SaveryIN HONOR OF SUSAN S. VINCENTMr. and Mrs. Robert A. VincentIN HONOR OF EUNICE LUELLA KIDWELL AKERSMrs. E. Ruth Woody

Gifts listed in each report were received between January 1st and December 31st 2014. a Every effort has been made to ensure this report is accurate. We would appreciate any errors or omissions being brought to the attention of the Development Office by contacting Courtney Roy-Branigan, Director of Development at 508-746-1622 (Ext 8203) so we may correct our records.

The Hornblower Circle$25,000 and Above

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. BrodeurMrs. Sarah FullerMs. Martha S. MugarMr. and Mrs. Gerald V. Sheehan

Leader10,000-$24,999

Mrs. William S. BrewsterMrs. Nancy R. HerndonMr. and Mrs. Philip C. OlssonMr. David R. Pokross, Jr. and Ms. Laurie S. Gill

Ambassador$5,000-$9,999

Mr. and Mrs. George P. Edmonds, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. K. Prescott LowMs. Amy MerrillMr. Richard PickeringMr. and Mrs. Robert Wareham

Sustainer$2,500-$4,999

Mr. Craig BrennerMr. David BurnhamMr. and Mrs. Holbrook R. DavisMr. and Mrs. Robert A. Graff

Col. Frank W. Harris III, USMC (Ret.)Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. QuinnMrs. Mary Bartlett ReynoldsMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. Stewart

Supporter$1,000-$2,499

Mrs. Shirley AmoryMr. and Mrs. Selwyn AthertonMr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. BrewsterMr. and Mrs. Andrew S. CarterMr. Christopher Cooper and Mrs. Marianne Leone CooperMs. Ellie E. DonovanMs. Elizabeth Fama and Mr. John H. CochraneMr. Stephen FletcherMr. and Mrs. Peter FrameMr. and Mrs. Edward R. GatesMr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gloster IIIMrs. Marion D. HarrisMs. Deborah A. HawkinsMs. Sheila Slocum HollisMr. Robert Howard and Ms. Anne LynchMr. and Mrs. F. Sherman HoytMr. and Mrs. Ted HubbardMr. and Mrs. Christopher HusseyMrs. Mary V. KurtzMr. and Mrs. Robert K. LamereMr. Charles E. Merrill, Jr.Ms. Lois E. MoranDr. and Mrs. John M. MoranMrs. Paul S. Morgan

C H A I R M A N ’SSO C I ETY

We are grateful beyond words for the loyal support of an outstanding group of volunteers and donors, whose generosity and commitment to Plimoth Plantation is an inspiration. Thank you for your help in fulfilling the Museum’s educational mission.

Mr. George J. MutrieMrs. A. Jay ObuchonMr. and Mrs. Martin PersonMr. and Mrs. John P. Reardon, Jr.Mr. Powell Robinson, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. RussellMr. Richard H. SgarziMrs. Marilyn C. StewartMr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. StubbsMr. and Mrs. Charles F. Vandini, Sr.Mr. Richard C. Walton and Ms. Susan OlsenDr. James M. WeissMr. and Mrs. James O. Welch, Jr.Mr. Willard J. WhartonMr. and Mrs. Nathan N. Withington

Contributing Members$500-$999

Mr. Ralph B. AllisonDr. Paul Coverdale BartlettMr. and Mrs. Robert BrawerMs. Christina BrodieMr. and Mrs. Dave BuckMs. Mary B. DannerMr. Glen DowdenMs. Ruth Ann FayMs. Libby ForniMr. and Mrs. James A. FreedmanMs. Linda A. GillerMr. John J. GillisMs. Gail GreenleeMr. and Mrs. Robert G. HalaszMr. Gordon Harris and Ms. Judi UrquhartMr. and Mrs. Alan HarveyMr. and Mrs. David J. HealyMr. Daniel P. Herres and Mrs. Rebecca M. Gilbreth-HerresMr. and Mrs. John B. JamiesonMr. and Mrs. Hudson La ForceIIIMr. and Mrs. John R. LaPann, Jr.

In addition to the donations listed here, Plimoth Plantation would like to thank and acknowledge

the 1,780 supporters who made a gift up to$499 in 2013. Every gift makes a difference.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. LongMr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. MacNaughtMr. and Mrs. Peter L. MalkinMr. E. MacDonald MatterDr. and Mrs. Richard MerloMr. and Mrs. Richard R. MeyerMr. and Mrs. Nathaniel D. PhilbrickMr. Jerome PowellMrs. Nancy B. RiegelMr. and Mrs. Edward W. SantosMr. Lee Smith and Ms. Kristine HerrickMs. Joan Thompson-SteinMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey WallaceMs. Barbara V. WeidlichMrs. Barbara K. Wheaton

In addition to the donations listed here, Plimoth Plantation would like to thank and acknowledge the 1,242 supporters who each made a gift up to $499 in 2014.

Every gift makes a positive difference – Thank you!

CO M M U N I TYPA RT N E RS

Leader$10,000+A&E Television Networks (The History Channel)Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England, Inc.Newfield House, Inc.

Patron$2,500Catania Hospitality GroupOld North Advisors, LLCRogers and Gray Insurance Agency, Inc.

Contributor$1,000Green Castle VideoHigh Point Treatment CenterLobster Hut of PlymouthPlymouth Bay WinerySociety of Mayflower Descendants in the State of FloridaStenback & Taylor, Inc.Sysco Boston, LLCThe ARC of Greater Plymouth

Supporter$500Best Western Cold SpringColony Place Development LLCJack Conway & Co., Inc.KAF Financial Advisors, LLCPartners TechnologyPerformance PediatricsSociety of Mayflower Descendants in the State of IllinoisTufts Health Plan

Neighbor$250Hampton Inn & SuitesHilton Garden InnSociety of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Connecticut (SMDSCT)

Bed & Breakfast PartnerAbove the Bay at Thornton Adams B&BBayberry Inn Bed & BreakfastBy the Sea Bed & BreakfastSeabreeze Inn Bed & BreakfastThe Jesse Harlow House

The Community Partners program recognizes the generosity of businesses, lineage societies and nonprofit organizations that sustain Plimoth Plantation’s tradition of excellence and ensure our legacy as a dynamic living museum. Plimoth Plantation is grateful to our 2014 Community Partners for their support, and for the varied ways in which they advance our educational mission.

“I can no other answer make thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

- William Shakespeare

The Museum wishes to thank especially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for continuing to provide essential general operating support for the Museum through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

In particular we thank Senate President Therese Murray for her many years of service to her community. constituents and the Commonwealth. Significant funding for the restoration of Mayflower II wouldn’t have been possible without her strong advocacy for tourism in our region and her understanding that Mayflower II is a national treasure worthy of support.

Special thanks also to Governor Deval Patrick, Representative Vinny deMacedo, and Representative Cory Atkins, Chair of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.

G I FTS I N K I N D

Dr. Penny AxelrodMr. David E. BermanMs. Nancy M. BrennanMr. and Mrs. Dave BuckMr. and Mrs. David BuckmanMr. William J. BurnsMs. Nancy E. CarrollMs. Diane ChaissonMs. Susannah ClarkMr. and Mrs. Robert J. CocoMrs. Donna R. CourchaineMr. and Mrs. Andy DaigleMr. Ron Dean

Ms. Ellie DonovanDr. Sloane Drayson-KniggeMr. Jon EnosMr. Stephen FletcherMs. A. Patrizia GalassiMr. and Mrs. Eric HayesMs. Nanci HobsonMr. and Mrs. Henry Hornblower IIIMrs. Diane HuntMr. Robert E. Kluin, Jr.Mr. Mark LaBrecqueMr. and Mrs. Philip T. LaPradMr. and Mrs. John T. LebicaMr. and Mrs. Rush H.

Mr. Jason MacDonaldMs. Helen R. MacFarlaneMs. Tani MaurielloMr. and Mrs. Daniel McBrideMr. and Mrs. Houston MorrisMs. Sandra G. MunseyMr. and Mrs. Nicholas M. NikitasMrs. Catherine NissleMs. Kathy O’LearyMs. Vicki OmanMs. Kristen OneyMs. Sue Peabody

Ms. Dianne K. PotterMr. and Mrs. George RebovichMr. and Mrs. Richard C. RyanMr. Mitch StammMs. Irma StarrMrs. Laurie M. SybertzMr. Timothy TurnerMr. and Mrs. Jay WeissMr. and Mrs. Allen ZubatkinAlden Park Bar & GrillCafe StregaCape Rep TheatreCatania Hospitality GroupCoast of Maine

Columbus Restaurant Group (Traif Corp.)ConServ Group, Inc.Cosentino Center BostonDomenic’s Clothing and TuxedosEasCare AmbulanceEntergy - Pilgrim StationFor the JourneyGoodwin Procter, LLPGreen Briar Jam KitchenGuilty BakeryHeritage Museums and GardensHuntington Theatre CompanyHy-Line CruisesKase KraftsKing Arthur FlourLobster Hut of PlymouthMartha’s Bicycles & FitnessMayflower Brewing CompanyMorrison’s Home & GardenPhillips Tree RemovalPiantedosi’s Butcher ShopPilgrim Belle Cruises, LLCPilgrim Sands on Long BeachPlymouth Country ClubPlymouth Farmer’s MarketPort BistroRevels, Inc.Setting the SpaceSouth Shore Living MagazineStoneTekThe Witch MovieThe Gamm TheatreThe Mission ProductionsThe Plimoth Knitters ClubTrader Joe’sTuscany TavernTwelve TribesYankee MagazineLimbaugh III

SU P PO RT E RS

Corporate, Foundation and Government Supporters

Abbot and Dorothy H. Stevens FoundationAboutJobs.comAmazonSmileBNY Mellon Community PartnershipBoston Show ServicesBP Matching Fund ProgramButterall Law Firm, LLCCitizens Charitable FoundationCommonwealth of MassachusettsConserv, Inc.David Greenewalt Charitable TrustDudley J. Godfrey Jr. 2001 TrustDunlap’s Propane, Inc.Eastern Bank Charitable FoundationeBay Foundation Employee Engagement FundExxon Mobil FoundationFidelity Charitable Gift FundGardinor Prunaret FoundationGE FoundationHenry Hornblower Fund, Inc.Highland Street Foundation

Hilton Garden InnHoneywell InternationalIBM Corporation - Matching Gifts ProgramJewish Community FoundationKingston OilL. Knife & Son Inc.Maine Community FoundationMary Elizabeth Pearce FoundationMassachusetts Cultural CouncilMcGladrey LLPMorgan StanleyNational Endowment for the HumanitiesNew England BiolabsNSTAR FoundationOffice of Community Development - PlymouthPaul & Virginia Cabot Charitable TrustPitney Bowes Giving StationPlymouth County Development CouncilPlymouth Industrial Development CorporationPlymouth Sails RealtyRoberta M. Childs Charitable FoundationSchrafft Charitable TrustShell Oil CompanySidney Stern Memorial TrustSMBC Global Foundation, Inc.State Street Bank & Trust Co.Tedeschi Food Shops, Inc.The Champlin FoundationsThe Clifford FoundationThe Edgar & Pauline Main Family FoundationThe Ellison FoundationThe Foundation for Creative AchievementThe Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation, Inc.The International EducatorThe LeBaron FoundationThe Martha R. & Susan I. Seger FoundationThe Nichols TrustThree Guineas FundTyco Employee Matching Gifts ProgramVivint Solar Developer, LLCYawkey Foundation

Gifts listed in each report were received between January 1 and December 31, 2014. Every effort has been made to ensure this report is accurate. We would appreciate any errors or omissions to be brought to the attention of the Development Office by contacting Courtney Roy-Branigan, Director of Development, at 508-746-1622 ext. 8203 so we may correct our records.