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From: "willhn" <>
Subject: Re: [BRADFORD-L] First?
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:14:47 -0600


Good Grief, People. Lighten up. I posted the article from the
Dallas Morning News as a point of interest not of contention.
Just thought it was funny that the paper didn't even take the
time to check the date of the Plymouth Thanksgiving. Don't be so
sensitive. I guess I should have put a big <G> at the end so
ya'll would know it was all in fun. Sure didn't mean to start a
thread. You should see the personal mail I received. I've
learned my lesson. Don't try to be funny if you're not a
comedian.
Harold Williams


-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [BRADFORD-L] First?

>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.
>
>:-)
>
>----
>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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