My Selection — Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl

Generations of American schoolchildren learned about their Pilgrim forefathers with an emphasis on the “fathers.” They studied men like the Mayflower passenger Myles Standish, a military leader of the Plymouth Colony. But who remembers his wife, Rose, who died during their first winter in America, or his second wife, Barbara, or any of their seven children?