Today, December 22nd, is Forefathers' Day! Forefathers' Day is a holiday that commemorates the arrival of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Every year in Plymouth on December 22nd, the Old Colony Club, which was established in 1769, "honors the forefathers." The celebration begins at 6:00 AM with a march by members to the top of Cole's Hill next to the Massasoit's statue, followed by a reading of the Mayflower Compact and a ritual firing of the club's cannon. They fire the cannon 3 times:

Part 2 of The Mayflower Society's "Pilgrims in Love" series tells the story of Mary Churchill and Thomas Doty. Their story is a scandalous affair and involves one of the earliest child support cases. This segment was filmed inside the actual home where everything happened, the seventeenth-century Churchill House on Sandwich Street in Plymouth, MA. #PilgrimsInLove #Pilgrims #ValentinesDay #MaryChurchill #ThomasDoty #ChurchillHouse | General Society of Mayflower Descendants