Not to put too fine a pointon it, but mincemeat is a good deal older than
first contact.

John Dendy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John White [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 1:00 PM
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> Subject:      Re: New book on Plymouth Colony now available
>
> My guess is that if you check close enough you would find the "first "
> Thanksgiving
> wrapped up in a ceremony practiced by the NE Native Peoples as the
> Midwinter
> Rites.  We not only took their pumpkins , mincemeat, succatash and turkey
> but their
> holiday as well.      John
>
> "Lyle E. Browning" wrote:
>
> > Christopher Fennell wrote:
> >
> > > Announcing a new book by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz --
> > >
> > > Now available:
> > > "THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony."
> > >
> > > Beginning with an eyewitness account of the first Thanksgiving
> >
> > Wrong. Unless they were snowbirds going south for the winter. Far be it
> from me
> > to be immoderately iconoclastic, but the Pilgrims celebrated the second
> > Thanksgiving, not the first. That honor went to Berkeley Plantation in
> Charles
> > City County, Virginia. It was so decreed by then President Kennedy.
> >
> > I, too, was taught the Pilgrim Thanksgiving factoid in grade school and
> find it
> > amusing that it's still a prevalent misconception.
> >
> > Anyone for correcting the history books or do I hear an historical
> steamroller
> > in the distance?
> >
> > Lyle