“There are sharks here?” he said. The boat master laughed. “I don’t know about now,” he said, “but I saw quite a few during the crossing. They followed the boat to eat the kitchen leavings that the crew tossed overboard.” “We want to see Plymouth Rock next,” Ruth Rose said. “Can you tell us where it is?” The man pointed to a small concrete building not far away from the boat. “’Tis under that roof,” he said. “Be sure to visit the Pilgrim Hall Museum, too. ’Tis a short walk from the rock.” The kids left the Mayflower II, then hiked across a parking lot. They passed through a small grove of trees and came to a concrete building with columns in front. Behind the columns was a black fence. A few other people were standing by the fence, looking down at a large gray rock. The date 1620 had been etched into one side of it. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose joined the people at the fence.
