Wednesday, November 23, 2005

"'Tis I, Oceanus Hopkins..."

Cartoonist Gary Cangemi just did a Mayflower/Pilgrim theme in his Umbert the Unborn comic strip, featuring a spirited unborn boy named Oceanus Hopkins, en route to America in his mother's womb. The first entry is here. Follow-up entries here, here, here, here, here, here.

There was a real boy named Oceanus Hopkins, born en route to America on the Mayflower, in case you were wondering.

This list of passengers on Mayflower mentions him. That website (MayflowerHistory.com) has quite a bit on the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony.

This children's story by Margaret B. Pumphrey, about being on the Mayflower, includes a passage on how Oceanus got his name.

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