Welcome!

This is a beautiful fall crisp day, here for us to enjoy as we please.
Can you imagine 3 months ago a family boarded a ship in a harbor in England, in the spring of 1635, and have not stepped foot on solid ground until the fall of that year, perhaps on a day such as this? As they sailed, the little ship never stopped it's movement, children cried in the hold of the ship as the stench of sickness and animals overwhelmed the little ones, there was no place to go for a private moment of solitude, half way across the endless ocean the food is stale and sparse, the fresh water is no longer clean and is rationed. Clothing is never removed, washing up is nearly impossible as fresh water is jealously kept for drinking, sickness spreads quickly in the close quarters as most of the voyage requires most passengers to remain inside the hold.
Now imagine land and stepping out into the fresh, crisp air of freedom...and nothing else! Nothing! Nothing but wilderness, until shelters are made sleeping quarters are still aboard ship. But there is freedom from fear of arrest or death because choices were made counter to that of the King! Imagine, fearing for your life because you have decided a certain way of worship is honoring to God and you are sure that choice is worth the sacrifice! Imagine family members were killed for these choices, so dear to your heart you risked your own life, and those of your family!

We have grown up on history being little more than disconnected names, dates, and places that have little meaning for us, other than knowing enough to pass the test and then it is mostly forgotten. Perhaps this is partly why we have lost our history, it seems so distant and totally irrelevant to our everyday lives. But not so! And here we begin an adventure with a depth of meaning for us today we could not have imagined!
Please journey with us as we find, to our astonishment, the everyday decisions made hundreds, even thousands of years ago, have tremendous impact on us this very day!