LESSON TWO: A Pilgrim’s Lack of Progress

GET THE FACTS: A long voyage can be broken into smaller parts to make it more bearable. Deconstructing History: Mayflower does that too, bringing you all the stats about America’s most famous ship in a bit over three minutes. All the details you need to annoy your family with trivia at the next Thanksgiving dinner are here.

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TRIP OUT: Get your permission slip signed by a parent and then queue up on the miniature yellow bus that smells like stale Gummy Bears and has no seat belts? Only to be dropped into a bad historical reenactment hosted by over the hill theatre wash outs? No thanks. Save time, money and self-respect with a virtual voyage on YouTube.

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SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY: About thirty-five million people can now trace their family tree all the way back to The Mayflower. You’d think with those kind of numbers, some- one might get around to developing a site to reveal if you make the cut. Nope, this too will require some patience and fortitude. Start your research project today.

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There's no doubt that the landing of the Mayflower in the 'New World' in 1620 is one of the most important events in American history. Whether you know all of the facts about this historic voyage or not, discovering a connection to this iconic American event would be truly exciting for any family historian.

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GIVE THANKS: Celebrate Thanksgiving, the celebration of friendship between the survivors at Plymouth Colony and the local native tribes, as we do each year. Eat too much and fall asleep during a football game. Then set to reading Nathaniel Philbrick’s book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (2007). Spoiler alert, I already told you most of the story. 

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SURVIVE & THRIVE: Kiplinger’s has their own ideas about how to weather a correction. Unfortunately, all of their ideas include doing something, feeding into investors bias toward action, which is often self-defeating. However, there are two recommendations here worth keeping in mind: turning off the TV and having a strategy. Extra points for those of you for whom turning off the TV is the strategy. 

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Stocks are overdue for a pullback. Here's how to get ready. By , Senior Editor From August 2014 Stock market corrections are an inevitable part of investing. Since 1932, declines of 10% to 20% (the traditional definition of a correction) have occurred an average of every two years, according to InvesTech Research.

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LET THE DOGS OUT: People acting irrationally to come out on top at all costs? Pilgrims versus Strangers? Investors versus the world? Neither. It’s the annual Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show as depicted in the mockumentary Best in Show (2000). And if you thought the original passengers had geography issues, meet the play-by-play announcer for the show, Buck Laughlin: “Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia—a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact.” During the next correction, feel free to tune in for a few laughs whenever needed.