Plymouth Rock
PLYMOUTH ROCK
The rock is located easily. A beautiful canopy of granite has been erected over the historic stone. To protect it from souvenir hunters, it was necessary to build a steel fence around it. To the stranger who does not know the true topography of Massachusetts but who recalls various poems and songs, it is always a surprise not to find a “stern and rock-bound coast.” Sand is in great abundance, the beaches and sand bluffs extending in all directions. Recalling your history, you can picture the Mayflower failing to weather the Cape, putting in to this safe but shallow harbor. Myles Standish had already explored and reported back at Provincetown, where the ship had anchored, “good water in the brook and timber on the hills for homes.” Winter was coming and it was advisable to settle, and so these heroic people landed here. One hundred and two souls, according to history, had journeyed to this new country to find religious freedom for themselves. Turning from the rock, climb the stairway leading up the grassy bluff to