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