Author: Karel

First of all: thanks to all who pointed out that I need a new pair of reading glasses. 🙂
You were correct: I was a bit off this week. Across the street to be precise. Mea culpa.

But the answer was ment to be the Pilgrim Hall Museum (of course), the oldest public museum in the United States.

It is open to the public since 1824 and contains lots of memorabilia and archives from the Pilgrim Fathers.

Those who won’t need new specs

• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Cloudspotter
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• krenek
• mehmet durmus
• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Chris Nason
• Ozgur ONGOCMEN

– Hint –

• donaaronio
• R Hays
• Bill Close

West of contest #357

Please name the building at the crosshairs (click the image for larger)

Scrooby is a small village in Nottinghamshire.

It had a manor which belonged to the Archbishop of York and was occupied by William Brewster, which who used the manor as the starting point of the Pilgrim Fathers movement.

Those who boarded the Mayflower

• Cloudspotter
• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower

– Hint –

• R Hays
• Chris Nason
• Eloy Cano
• krenek

They headed east, before sailing tot the west.

Run (a.k.a. Pulau Run) is one of the smallest Banda Islands in the Indonesian Archipel.

It was of great importance to the nutmeg trade in the 17th century and thus of great value.
With the treaty of Breda, which ended the second Dutch-Anglo war in 1667, run was exchanged against Manhattan (!)

those who invested wisely

• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Paul Voestermans

– Hint –

• Gillian B
• R Hays
• Walter_V_R
• Marcel
• rob de wolff
• krenek
• Phil Ower
• Paul Franson
• Sasha Smith

This island once had the same value as Manhattan