Fashion To Die For?
Though Plymouth struggles with life and death, will fashion continue to define social status?

Smallpox
Scourge Of The Colonies
Feared And Reviled By All. (More on this story)

Hugh Norman
Cad & Scoundrel
Abandons Wife & Children.   Leads Dissolute Life In England.   Plymouth Takes Note.
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Need A Doctor?  Don't Hold Your Breath!
Physick Cures & Other Medicinal Curiosities
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To The South
Early Cannibalism?

How the slave who had spoken ill
of me was himself eaten

Image from Theodore De Bry's Historica Americae above depicts a disturbing scene

A Weroans or gread Lord of Virginia.

Killer Snowstorms
Devastate New England
Expanded Coverage

(1717) Winter Snowstorms blast New England leaving snowdrifts ten to twenty-five feet high and imprisoning  people in their homes.(More On This Story)

England Glad To Be Rid of Stephen Hopkins?
Mayflower Trip Not The First For Contentious Stephen Hopkins.
A reader submits this story.

King Philip.
A Case of Mistaken Identity?
(Reader Sue Martin prompts a second look at King Philip's heritage)

June, 1676: Woburn, MA:
Citing  a defense against depravity, Woburn leaders have taken to "spying" on their citizensCiting  a defense against depravity, Woburn leaders have taken to "spying" on their citizens.(More on this story)