Craft Beer Plymouth
A short documentary created by Bridgewater State University students who are Plymouth natives. A special thank you to Tatum of the Craft Beer Cellar, Jordan of The Speedwell, and Jess of Nosh Tavern!
Producers: Kelsey Rameaka & Breanna Gustafson
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American Pilgrim excerpt - The Brewer (Rolf Potts on the Travel Channel)
Travel writer Rolf Potts interviews brewer Drew Brosseau at the Mayflower Brewing Company in Plymouth, Mass. An outtake from American Pilgrim, a 2008 Travel Channel Thanksgiving special that explores the legacy of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Directed by Peter Wisdom and co-produced by Jamie Broome (copyright 2008, the Travel Channel and Pioneer Productions).
The #Pilgrim #Printing #Press - Holland #Mayflower America #wikileaks
The Pilgrim Press. The Pilgrims had a printing press. William Brewster and at least one other Pilgrim were typesetters and printers. Actually, it was their print-jobs that got them in trouble with King James I and the Church of England. That same printing press helped them spread God's Word in what it meant in their eyes and grew their following. And that very same press, generally used for publishing, also literally saved their life's.
That is right. The printing press, or the center screw of it, saved the Mayflower from sinking! The Mayflower was still 4 months away from America and 4 months out from England/Holland. So there was no turning back. Read:
The Mayflower carried 102 passengers and about 40 crew members crammed into a 150-foot ship. In addition, passengers brought furniture, books, clothing, food and drink for the crossing, seeds, livestock, and even a printing press. It was a very tight fit. (The Pilgrims were eventually to live on board the Mayflower for 8 months.)
The crossing was as bad as had been feared. Many storms shook the ship. Back in Holland, William Brewster (an elder of the church and Bradford's mentor) had been hunted down by English authorities for printing books critical of the Church of England and King James. The authorities did not find Brewster, who was in hiding, but smashed the fonts for his printing press so he could not do any more printing. Now, as the Mayflower was tossed in the ocean, her main beam began to crack. The giant screw from Brewster's press was fitted into position under the beam and bolstered it, keeping the ship from cracking apart! (Bradford had brought the press with him to Holland when he escaped England.) Source:
Amazing Thanksgiving facts to share. In this video we go into how the Pilgrims kind of compare to Jullian Assange and Wikileaks. The freedom of press should be a universal right.
My full email notes, with sources, quotes and citations:
The Pilgrims lived 11-years in Leiden, The Netherlands:
They lived in Leiden, Holland, a city of 100,000 inhabitants, Leiden was a thriving industrial center,[15] and many members were well able to support themselves working at Leiden University or in the textile, printing, and brewing trades.
PRINTING PRESS
Brewster had been teaching English at the university, .. Brewster acquired typesetting equipment about 1616 in a venture financed by Thomas Brewer, and began publishing the debates through a local press.[19]
The crossing was as bad as had been feared. Many storms shook the ship. Back in Holland, William Brewster (an elder of the church and Bradford's mentor) had been hunted down by English authorities for printing books critical of the Church of England and King James. The authorities did not find Brewster, who was in hiding, but smashed the fonts for his printing press so he could not do any more printing.
The Pilgrim Press in Leyden”
The extent of the plant in the Pilgrim Printing-
house may very well have been limited. A single
garret in the house of William Brewster sufficed to con-
ceal the type-cases and the types. Arber leans towards
/ a belief in the paucity of the material, for he conjectures
that the made-up forms were not worked off by Brewster
and his allies, but taken to some of the Dutch Printing-
houses to be machined off. There is, however, a
consideration which appears to us to weigh heavily
against this belief that the Pilgrims had nothing beyond
a box of letters and a composing stick ! It will be re-
membered that, after the Pilgrims' Press had been broken
up by the civil and academic authorities at Leyden,
and the types removed, and after the printers had been
scattered, something significant happened on board the
ship Mayflower
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.
— Johannes Gutenberg
As God would have it, the The Pilgrim Printing Press was important then more ways then one. Gutenberg would be proud!
John Holl: The American Craft Beer Cookbook | Talks at Google
John Holl visited Google LA to discuss his book The American Craft Beer Cookbook This talk took place on August 25, 2014.
There's a revolution going on in the beer world. The food you eat should be just as delicious as the beer you drink and award-winning beer journalist John Holl captures the best of the brewery and brewpub menus in his latest book, The American Craft Beer Cookbook. The 155 recipes cover breakfast to dessert, with vegetarian and gluten free options along with soups, seafood and more.