The Plimoth Plantation park takes you back to colonial times, using role-playing actors that you can converse with. There are three sites in the park: a Native American village, an area showcasing the crafts of the colonial period, and a reconstructed village of the English settlers. I spent all my time in the English village, enjoyed it thoroughly, and could have stayed longer. The "settlers", in period clothing, do not give talks or put on a presentation; on the contrary, they stay in character as early settlers carrying out routine daily tasks, and it is up to you, the visitor, to engage them in conversation. If you ask they will tell you about their daily lives, their passage on the Mayflower seven years earlier, the difficulties they have encountered, their hopes for the future, and anything else that is appropriate for their role and era. They cannot comment on anything more recent than 1627. I found it enormously fun and educational to get into their world and see history through their eyes. The park is quite spread out and hilly, and mostly not paved; an electric cart can be called upon to shuttle visitors with physical limitations from place to place.