[Virginia-American]

I'm sorry, but the Pilgrims are not my founders...

Next year Virginia will lead the nation in commemorating the 400th anniversaty of the first Engllish speakers to make a go of it in North America. 14 years before the Puritans.

I don't know much about the Mayflower Compact, but I do know that the Virginia Legislature is the oldest such body in the New World.

[DocRock]

"Next year Virginia will lead the nation in commemorating the 400th anniversaty of the first Engllish speakers to make a go of it in North America. 14 years before the Puritans.

I don't know much about the Mayflower Compact, but I do know that the Virginia Legislature is the oldest such body in the New World."

I attended a class reunion in Jamestown in Sept. 2001, just after the terrorist attacks. My class reunion was from the Flint School aboard TeQuest and teVega. The attendees visited the replica tall ship that our original settlers sailed. In our school, we were made to work from 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving without food to drill into our minds the starvation from the "common store house" our founders erroneously set up. That is one reason I was a little touchy in this thread about my knowledge of history.

FReegards,
DocRock