Join Plimoth Plantation and Plymouth 400 for a Viewing of the USPS Virtual Ceremony featuring United States Postal Service Representative 

Richard Pickering 
Deputy Executive Director, Plimoth Plantation

Michele Pecoraro 
Executive Director, Plymouth 400

George P. Garmany, Jr., MD
Governor General, General Society of Mayflower Descendants
For those unable to join us to watch the ceremony live at 11 a.m., the video will be available throughout the day in the Mayflower exhibit as well as via the USPS Facebook and Twitter pages, Plimoth’s Facebook page, and Plymouth 400’s social media channels.

Limited Edition CommemorativeAnniversary CachetsIntroducing two unique collectible envelope designs featuring Mayflower II under sail and the MayflowerCompact. These envelopes were specially created by Plimoth Plantation to pair with the USPS' new Mayflower Forever Stamp. Buy your cachets at our pop-up shop this Thursday and take them to the USPS Main St. Extension Center, adjacent to the Plymouth 400 offices, to receive cachet cancellations. Not local? You can order your limited edition cachets through our online Museum Shop!


Pre-order Plimoth-exclusive cachets and stationery

The RootsTech organization has announced that next year's event will be online, Feb. 25-27, 2021 and FREE. That's a savings of a couple hundred dollars plus air fare to Salt Lake City plus several nights in a hotel there. This is one of the rare silver linings of Covid-19 and you don't want to miss out on it. RootsTech is accepting registration for 2021 now. Click here to register and get on the updates email list for more on speakers and workshops. I attended in 2020 and even with 30+ years of genealogy and a doctorate in history I still got many useful tips that will improve my research success. Hopefully I will see you online in February.

Along with the commemorative U.S. postal stamp, there will be a set of collaborative commemorative coins issued by both the U.S. Mint and the Royal Mint, to show the departure and arrival in 1620. The U.S. coin features a Native American man and woman farming with "Sustainers of Life" above the picture and "People of the Dawn" below. On the other side are male & female pilgrims, the ship and the words "Civil Body Politick" above and "Mayflower Compact" below. The British coin is apparently real money, as it says "2 Pounds" and has Queen Elizabeth II on one side. The other has a large image of the ship with "1620," "2020," and "Mayflower." There is apparently an American version that is also worth money, a $10 coin, in 24 karat gold. Here is the link to the U.S. Mint web site, which presumably somewhere tells you how to order a set. Below are the images in silver but the web site shows the gold versions as well.