Remember When . . . A Screw Saved Us?

I’m up on Colonial Quills today, and I’m talking about . . . what? A giant screw? A printing press? Huh?

Yep. Our homeschool year has been full to bursting with oh-so-interesting fun facts about early America, but this one won the right to appear on the CQ. 😉 Hop over to read the full article!

The year was 1620. The crowd of passengers crammed into the small vessel
numbered 101. Among them were adventurers, seekers of fortune…and a
group of Separatists who wanted a fresh start in a new land where they
could worship as they saw fit. 

We’ve all heard the story of the Mayflower. But I confess that
for many years it was just a tale trotted out at the end of November,
and I had always been far more interested in making paper-bag Indian
vests and coloring my cornucopia than in some of the finer details of
the Pilgrims’ journey. Of course, that was before I became a history
nerd, so it’s only to be expected that now, as I’m reading those old
stories to my kids in our homeschool curriculum, they’re the ones
coloring happily away while I pause in my reading to go, “Wow, I never
knew that! Just think of it…”

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