Cape Cod Motels (Series 2) Dennis

Plymouth – Town Square & Burial Hill Tour

The Pilgrims held Christian services onboard the Mayflower and then at a fort atop Burial Hill from 1621-1648. The fort served as a meeting house as well as the Plymouth General Court. In 1648 the first of five church buildings (built in 1684, 1744, and 1831) on the town square was constructed. In 1899 the current granite Romanesque building was constructed to replace the 1831 wooden Gothic structure. The church is currently an active Unitarian congregation.

Burial Hill is the final resting place of several Pilgrims. It is located off Leyden Street, the first street in Plymouth.

READ: Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1892 (1892) (illustrations) by Bradford Kingman (1831-1903)

Hyannis Harbor Tours – Early 1970s

Check out this blog by Hy-Line Cruises – the company who owns the boats in the footage (still in operation)

Carver – Richard Loring Is Home

Richard Loring, Class of 1930, Wareham High School

The autographs of Richard Loring and some of his classmates.

Sixty-six years after the plane he was flying in crashed into a mountain in Corsica, Army Air Corps Cpl. Richard Loring’s remains came home to Carver.

Born in Brockton in 1913 and raised in Carver, Loring served in the Mediterranean theater during WWII as a member of the 57th Bombardment Wing, 12th Air Force. On May 10, 1944, a B-25C aircraft of the 57th Bombardment Wing took off from Ajaccio, Corsica, on a routine courier mission to Ghisonaccia, Corsica, military officials said. Loring was one of five passengers killed when the aircraft crashed into Mount Cagna in Giannuccio, near Sartene, Corsica, they said. A few days after the crash, a search party found the wreckage at the site, but said the remains could not be recovered. Identification tags, belonging to Loring, were found at the crash site.

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