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Subject: Re: [BRADFORD-L] First?
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:37:59 EST


Dear Willhn,

What's the problem? "Common Knowledge" gives the date in the article, not the
newspaper. If C.K. were always correct, genealogy research would be one hill
of beans easier.

And, before the east coast had much activity, all sorts of events took place
west of the Mississippi which are commonly ignored by American History books.
(Last time I looked we, here in California, are just as much a part of the
USofA as the "original 13.") Even as a very young child I was bothered by
that story of the Indian greeting the Pilgrims when they arrived -- in good
English yet! Then we visited Newfoundland where, when the Pilgrims arrived,
they had a thriving city already going. So Canada pre-dates Massachusetts as
well.

As for the *first* Thanksgiving, people all over the world have been having
Feasts of Thanks to God for good harvests lo-o-o-o-ng before Columbus, or even
Leif Erikson, sailed west -- and that's God in his many concepts as envisioned
by the world's many different cultures.

So chill out, stay cool, lie back, and otherwise just enjoy life a bit more.

:-)

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In a message dated 12/1/98 2:52:03 AM, you wrote:

> Every Massachusetts
>pupil knows that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated at
>Plymouth in 1620. Right? Well, not so fast. Virginians say
>that it was at Berkely Plantation, Virginia, in 1619. Actually,
>both are wrong. The first Thanksgiving was at Palo Duro Canyon,
>near present-day Amarillo, where the Francisco Vasquez de
>Coronado expedition celebrated a daybreak Mass with friendly Teya
>Indians in 1541. So There.

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