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 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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