This book was particularly appealing to me because I am from Massachusetts. As a boy, I went on many school field trips to Plimoth Plantation and Plymouth Rock. I am familiar with the various towns with English names like Weymouth, Duxbury and Kingston. In addition, towns with Indian names like Narragansett, Cotuit, Massasoit and Squantum are familiar to me. You can't travel very far in Southeastern Massachusetts without finding a restaurant or hotel named after Bradford, Standish or Alden. In the 60's and 70's, before political correctness became fashionable the Massachusetts Turnpike logo was a Pilgrim Hat (the kind with the buckle above the brim) with an arrow through it. Now the logo is just a hat, the arrow is long gone. The whole concept of Pilgrims and Indians in Massachusetts has become very quaint and commercial. Philbrick took my simplistic childhood image of the Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving and smashed it into a million pieces. Wow!