You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. The Little Mermen, which calls itself “Ultimate Disney Cover Band,” takes the stage at Memorial Hall, […]
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Oh, come all ye to see a display of Christmas creches
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. For many who celebrate Christmas, a creche (otherwise known as a nativity scene) representing the story […]
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Flirting with disaster in this wicked twist on ‘A Christmas Carol’
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. If you like to go behind the scenes of a performance – especially when there’s a […]
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It rained on the parade, but the weather didn’t dampen spirits
You know the old saying: Don’t rain on my parade. Well, it did rain on our parade Saturday, keeping the crowds down (and driving up the numbers of viewers watching it live on WCVB or through a streaming service). Nonetheless, the America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration parade – part of a weekend-long set of events – […]
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‘Smalls’ show at library aims to make buying art affordable
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. Local artists are displaying their work at the Plymouth Public Library’s first Holiday Smalls Art Show, […]
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Are you ready for Saturday’s Thanksgiving parade?
Plymouth’s annual Thanksgiving parade – set for Saturday, Nov. 23, rain or otherwise – is the town’s biggest event of the year, with tens of thousands of people expected to line the route. Planning how you’ll get to a prime viewing spot now will make the experience a much better one. While everyone loves a […]
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‘It’s just an amazing historic moment’
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Tuesday issued an executive order officially recognizing Plymouth’s Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe. “(S)ince well before the arrival of the Mayflower, the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe has continuously inhabited lands within the borders of what is now Massachusetts, with ancestral homelands stretching from the Plymouth area to the upper reaches of Cape […]
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Just about everything you need to know about America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org at least 10 days in advance. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. What is it about a parade that most everyone loves? Is it the music, or the […]
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Fox wins big with his wife but finishes second on ‘Jeopardy!’
So close, and yet so far. Jonathan Fox of Plymouth was almost the winner on “Jeopardy!” Tuesday evening. He answered the last question correctly and took the lead in final round but lost when the reigning champ also came up with the right response. Fox had the lead in Double Jeopardy! but dropped to second […]
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At Thanksgiving time, sizing up Plymouth Rock
Four centuries after British settlers landed here, Plymouth Rock remains the spot every visitor must see, despite the many tired jokes about its size. More than a million people look at it every year. And with Thanksgiving season in full swing, the 10-ton piece of granite housed under an ornate portico is having its annual […]