"The year is 1774. It is the eve of the Revolutionary War... They have put up a liberty pole, which is essentially just that: a big wooden pole, but it is, of course, more than just that. It is a symbol of defiance against the Crown, a metaphoric middle finger, rising from the town green."
"The liberty pole tradition traces its roots to ancient Rome... Then, during the Renaissance, when everything Ancient Rome was new again, people revived the concept and refreshed it for a new era, turning it into a more generalized symbol of liberty..."
"This is Plymouth, after all, founded 154 years earlier by people who famously fled English oppression. A regular pole isn't going to do. The next morning a 'large number gathers'... they head down to the shore to dig up Plymouth Rock and put it on top of the Liberty Pole."
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