Each year, more than half a million modern-day Pilgrims come from all over the world to step back in time, almost four centuries, and become part of the living history experience at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass. Through living history exhibits, the 1627 Pilgrim Village and Hobbamocks (Wampanoag Indians) Homesite, Plimoth Plantation re-creates the people, time and place of 17th-century Plymouth. Trained staff members, painstakingly research period costumes and dialects and authentically reproduce buildings and artifacts. One of the museums main sites, Mayflower II is a full-scale reproduction of the 17th-century vessel. Visitors learn about the Pilgrims 1620 ocean crossing, as well as about construction techniques of both a 17th-century ship and its 21st -century counterpart. In the Pilgrim Village, colonists talk in 17th-century dialects. Visitors learn what a pottage is or how a duck or bluefish is cooked on the hearth, see cows or goats being milked, or wattle and daub applied to a house under construction. Depending on the season, you may see a garden planted, cornfields being hoed, or the harvest brought in and stored.