Jason Brown, born in Maine, is the author of several short story collections, including A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (2019), which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and the Maine Book Award/Maine Literary Award. Several of his stories have been performed as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts, and his work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories. Brown earned his MFA from Cornell University and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon.

The Legacy of the Mayflower Landing

An Essay

by Jason Brown

When, on December 18, 2020, we arrive at the four hundredth anniversary of the Mayflower landing in Plymouth, I suspect many people might ask, so what? Why on earth would we remember, no less celebrate, a symbol of the Protestant invasion of North America?

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