On September 7th at 2PM, the Plimoth Plantation‘s Mayflower II will be launched and recommissioned at Mystic Seaport Museum. The replica of the ship which carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth, MA has undergone a major three-year restoration at the seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. In preparation for launching, the ship will be christened with water from all 50 states as well as Plymouth, U.K., and Leiden, Netherlands. Once the Mayflower II returns to Massachusetts in spring 2020, the ship will be the centerpiece of the 400th commemoration of the Pilgrims’ arrival to historic Patuxet, now known as Plymouth.
From the Mystic Seaport website:
Recent video of the extremely well-preserved wreck of Franklin’s ship 
Accompanied by a flotilla of well-wishers, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, 
I feel like beginning this post with the old cheer, “The King is dead! Long live the King!” But no. That is hardly apt. How about “the schooner
Given all the economic damage being done by needless trade wars, it seems worthwhile to recall the ship that opened the trade with the United States’ first trading partner, China. The new nation had won the Revolutionary War but had lost much of its foreign trade. The economy slumped. The American banker Robert Morris decided to venture into new markets. If the British wouldn’t sell Americans tea from India, then Americans would buy tea from China. He hired a newly built privateer, renamed the ship the 
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If you haven’t been in Times Square in New York City within the past few decades, it has been transformed into a realm of light and video with every available building and wall covered with electronic billboards advertising products and entertainment. Recently, there has been a concern that the waterways around New York City might be turned into “floating Times Squares.”
Apparently, Monday was 
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