Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday will be sunny with a high of sixty-five.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 5:45 PM, and Common Council meets thereafter at 6:30 PM.
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882). Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1620, a ship leaves from England:
The Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists–half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs–had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course, and on November 21 the “Pilgrims” reached Massachusetts, where they founded the first permanent European settlement in New England in late December.
Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found corrupt. Ten years earlier, English persecution had led a group of Separatists to flee to Holland in search of religious freedom. However, many were dissatisfied with economic opportunities in the Netherlands, and under the direction of William Bradford they decided to immigrate to Virginia, where an English colony had been founded at Jamestown in 1607.
Google-a-Day asks a question about art:
What panel painting, with inscriptions from Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible, did Durer present to Nuremberg town officials?