Lindsay and Madison discuss the pre-Thanksgiving tragedy that was The Great Dying, as well as the dangers of introducing foreign disease, that it’s gross to say plagues are “part of God’s divine plan,” and how devastating a single drop of pee can be (listen and you’ll get it). Information pulled from the following sources:

2020 The Conversation article by Matthew Patrick Rowley

2014 Cult Nation article by Mark Laskey

2012 Slate article by Madeleine Johnson

2010 Emerging Infectious Diseases article by John S. Marr and John T. Cathay

Historic Ipswich on the Massachusetts North Shore article

New England Historical Society website

PBS Learning Media resource from The Pilgrims: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Wikipedia

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