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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