The First Fifty
Years:
America’s
Forgotten Origin Story
Maryland Mayflower Society –
Compact Day Dinner
November 22,
2015
Connie Baxter Marlow and
Andrew Cameron Bailey present discoveries and conclusions drawn from many years of research into the fifty-four years of
peace and friendship between the
Mayflower Pilgrims and the
Pokanoket Wampanoags in
Plymouth Colony between 1621 and 1675. Their work also addresses the turbulent history of native
New England before the
Mayflower.
An extraordinary exception to the human condition unfolded when the visionary leaders of two radically different cultures met and worked together to maintain an inter-cultural exchange that became what Bailey and Marlow call the "
First Great Synthesis” between
Europeans and
American Indians. This melding gave birth to
American democracy and to the
American mind and spirit.
The "Second Great Synthesis” occurred when aspects of The Great Law of the
Iroquois were integrated into the
United States Constitution in 1787. Bailey and Marlow foresee a third synthesis in the near future, as our disparate cultures come together again to realize the great promise America made to the world in its freedom documents:
The Mayflower Compact,
The Declaration of Independence and
The U.S. Constitution.
The inspiring origin story of the
United States has been shrouded in misinformation and misconception since the beginning. First it glorified the
Pilgrim and ignored the
Indian. Now it demonizes the Pilgrim in an effort to honor the Indian. Bailey and Marlow bring the story into balance through a perspective on the common vision for humanity shared by the
Pilgrims and the
Indians they lived amongst: a vision based upon the right to act according to one’s conscience in a self-governing democracy.
Bailey, a researcher of native New England before the Mayflower, will reveal paradigm-changing discoveries which lay the foundation for a shift from the blame, shame, anger and guilt that currently grip the American psyche and stand in the way of America achieving its full potential.
Connie Baxter Marlow is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims
John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, and of Thomas Welles, the first governor of
Connecticut Colony. She is a member of the
Connecticut Mayflower Society. Her great-grandfather Asa
Palmer French was acting-Governor and
Deputy Governor of the
General Society of Mayflower Descendants and
General Counsel for the
Society for many years. Her great-great-grandfather
James Phinney Baxter, a pre-eminent historian of early New England, was
President of the New England Historical
Genealogical Society for 20 years. When Baxter died in
1921 he left money to the
City of Boston to build a “New England
Pantheon” to honor “the early settlers of New England whose principles and ideals were the seed of free government.”
The Pantheon was never built.
The Trust was broken, and the money has recently been committed to the
Boston Public Library, which has invited Marlow and Bailey to present their latest work at the library's new auditorium in the fall of 2016, to inaugurate the library's Baxter Lecture
Series. Connie brings a unique perspective to her ancestors’ dreams for humanity, in that she has spent 30 years in close association with visionary
Native American elders throughout the United States and
Mexico, and has been creating forums for them to share their understanding of the nature of the
Universe for over 20 years.
Andrew Cameron Bailey calls himself a "latter-day pilgrim." He sailed across the
Atlantic and arrived in America on
Thanksgiving Day,
1969. He was born in
England and grew up in
South Africa amongst the
Zulus, holds degrees in science,
English and social anthropology, and was a chemistry professor before emigrating to the United States. After meeting Connie in
2003 he became disturbed at the level of mis-information in the American psyche surrounding the settling of New England, and the ongoing deprecation and denigration of the Pilgrims and the Puritans in present-day America.
Andrew is currently completing a
21st Century novel/screenplay with the working title “The Mayflower
Revelations,” that sets the historical record straight in an entertaining, enlightening and inspiring way. He is preparing to publish a well-researched magazine article on his theory concerning the pandemic that decimated the New England indigenous population between the years 1616 and 1618, a few short years before the Mayflower arrived at
Cape Cod.
Read more:
http://bit.ly/MarylandMayflowerCompactDayVR
For more information go to:
http://www.First50Years.us
http://www.YouTube.com/First50Yrs
http://www.TheBaxterProject.org
http://www.TheTrustfFrequency.net
http://www.InSearchofTheFutureMovie.com
Watch "IN
SEARCH OF THE FUTURE: What do the
Wise Ones Know?"
Online: http://bit.ly/ISOTFOnline
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