"We all want to know how it was in the beginning.
From the Big Bang to the Garden of Eden
to the circumstances of our own births,
we yearn to travel back to that distant time
when everything was new and full of promise. Perhaps then, we tell ourselves, we can start
to make sense of the convoluted mess we are in today."; From "Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War"
by Nathaniel Philbrick
