markingweekend, we're the 400th anniversary of the pilgrim's arrival in plymouth, massachusetts and 6020. >> i am richard pickering, director -- executive director, and we are at the waterfront in plymouth, massachusetts. and behind me is mayflower ii. 400 years ago, in 1620, mayflower would not have been this close to the shore. she had a draft of about 12 feet, meaning her whole is 12 or 13 feet below the water. so the ship had to stay about a mile and a half out in the harbor, what is now known as the cows yard. also behind me is plymouth rock, the famous landing place of the pilgrims in december of 1620. we don't know where the rock was either. it's been moved so many times. the first time the story gets told that the pilgrims landed at length rock was in 1741. an elderly man heard that they were about to put a -- up down here at the waterfront, and he was despairing. and he said to the young men, could you take me down there one more time, so i can see where the first ones landed? they put him in a chair and carried this elderly man down in the chair and he tapped the rock with his