Went to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox challenge the Devil Rays in a meaningless game. At the beginning of the 5th inning, after consuming hot dogs, cotton candy and peanuts, Hank said "Can we go to the gift shop now?" And we did. Final score - Tampa Bay 11, Boston 0.

I have been reading Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower which is principally about the Pilgrim's relationship with the Indians and especially with the Pokonokets and their Chief, Massasoit and later his son, King Philip.

In July of 1621 the Pilgrims Edward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins traveled from Plymouth to visit Massasoit at his "Sachem" known as Sowams in what is now Warren RI. The trip was a two day, 40 mile walk.

Winslow and other Pilgrims made the same trip again two years later after hearing that Massasoit was ill (probably with Typhus). Philbrick reports that Winslow saved Massasoit's life with a "pottage" of chicken soup.

I have not been able to determine the exact location of Massasoit's village in Warren. We take the boys to a playground there pretty frequently. Maybe my friends formerly from Escondido can research this for me.