MAYFLOWER’S “STEPHANO” 

Online chat with Hit and Run History’s Andrew Buckley

Cove Burying ground is the final resting place of two Mayflower passengers – siblings Giles Hopkins and Constance (Hopkins) Snow. Born in southern England, they had grown up hearing tales of their father’s misadventures across the Atlantic on Bermuda and in Virginia a decade before they set forth on their own journey of migration. 

Cape Codder Andrew Buckley grew up with this story too. His mother, Lucy Jane (Hopkins) Buckley, was born in a midwife’s house next to the Cove burying ground and the family homestead still stands on Hopkins Lane in East Orleans

So the Two-time Emmy-nominated producer and host of public media’s Hit and Run History decided the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival was the best time to focus on New Plymouth’s iconoclast tavernkeeper’s connection to Shakespeare’s drunken and mutinous “Stephano” in The Tempest. In their Gumshoe Historian style, Buckley and crew seek out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.

At 7 PM on Wednesday September 2, Eastham Library will host an online discussion with Buckley and show clips from his film “Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare's Shipwreck.”

A production of the Cape Cod Community Media Center, the program was awarded a pre-production grant from Mass Humanities.

The program starts online at 7:00 PM on September 2. The link will be available on easthamlibrary.org at 6 PM that day.  For more information, go to the Facebook event listing at Hit and Run History Facebook.

This program is part of the Eastham 400 Commemoration.

Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/olsf9D2B2S4