The problem with historical archaeology today is all those persnickety
Virginia archaeologists...

Dane Magoon
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Virginian by birth
Southern Illinoisan by temporary academic necessity





>To Lyle Browning and the rest of the list
>        Before the debate over the "first" Thanksgiving flares up into
>another civil war familiarize yourself with the book and you will see that
>the story about the first thanksgiving is included in a chapter about the
>pilgrim myth. It is all spelled out pretty well and does not try to
>establish the pilgrims as the first of anything. I would tend to agree with
>the authors however that Thankgiving as we know it and celebrate it today in
>this country originated with the interpretation of the pilgrim myth and not
>at Berkeley Hundred.
>Sincerely
>                                                                        Eric
>Deetz
>
>plymouthian by birth
>
>Virginian by choice
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