william brewster family. the idea is to help our guests walk into an accurate recreation of the past and to feel that they have been physically transported and mentally transported as well. >> my name is elizabeth collins, i've been here now for 7 years. my family and i decided that we were going to come to the new world and that was in 1620 or so. the ship called mayflower that brought us here. it was more so their decision than mine, since i was 13 years old. by two months that we were out to sea and probably something like seven months in total that i lived aboard the ship because there are no houses built when we arrived here, so it was the men that would get off during the day and they would build the houses and they get back on to the ship at night. and so, it was tedious. and being that i was 13, i was caring for younger children but also caring for my parents that were seasick for the journey and as we were in the harbor, people started getting sick with coughs and colds. so i cared for them as well as best i could. we'd sing songs, pray a lot, try to sleep. the sounds of the animals were always terrifying. we brought pigs, we also brought hands, dogs, cats and goats. the ship already smelled a