KSMD celebrated its annual Compact Day luncheon meeting on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at the
Pendennis Club in Louisville. The speaker was Dr. Len Travers, associate professor of history
at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Travers worked at the Massachusetts Historical Society in
Boston, and before that was Director of Interpretation at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Len's excellent presentation "Dodging a Bullet: Thoughts on an Overlooked Exodus from Plymouth Colony, 1625,"
was a fascinating study of the Lyford purge and its affect on the early Plymouth population.