TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/16/23 – MAYFLOWER DAY!
On September 16, 1620, a ship set sail from Plymouth, England. On board were 102 men, women and children, pilgrims to an unknown New World, mostly English Separatists and Puritans, which makes today NATIONAL MAYFLOWER DAY! We can thank the Mayflower for America’s Puritan streak, best described by H.L. Menken as “the haunting fear that …