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The REAL Story of Thanksgiving
The Liberator Onlline ^
| Nov. 20, 1997
| Paul Schmidt
Posted on 11/21/2009 7:34:36 AM PST by FreeKeys
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To: FreeKeys
http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/thanksgiving/
The First Thanksgiving?
A new Thanksgiving tradition has taken root in Texas.
El Paso residents now claim the first Thanksgiving in
North America.
The modern event, first observed in April 1989,
commemorates a day of thanksgiving celebrated by
Spanish explorer Juan de Onate and his expedition
on April 30, 1598.
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posted on
11/22/2009 7:53:27 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: FreeKeys
thank you...Never heard this in school.
To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
Yes, the Virginia thing was the first by English speaking people. But actually it was second or third by Western Europeans.
The Southwest has a claim to First, but so does Bar Harbor, Maine. The St. Sauveur colony, under the French flag but actually composed of Bretons (who we know were the descendants of the original inhabitants of Roman Brittain), edged them out in 1598 or 1599.
I don't know if the folks at the Portuguese colony in Newfoundland did the same thing, but when Spain took over Portugual, that colony shut down and the colonists were taken South to the Caribbean (which was undoubtedly far nicer).
What we have in Thanksgiving is an American custom that arose spontaneously in most places, but which does have identifiable antecedents.
In fact, my own genealogical research demonstrates that one of the attendees at St. Sauveur certainly was present for the first Thanksgiving at Jamestown, and may well have attended the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth. He'd gone into real estate sales with John Smith.
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posted on
11/22/2009 7:55:27 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(Git Out The Way)
To: FreeKeys
Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative. Desperate, he abolished it. He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims, encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively. The results: a bountiful early harvest that saved the colonies. After the harvest, the Pilgrims celebrated with a day of Thanksgiving -- on August 9th.
Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate Americas first rejection of Communism.
Well done. Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
11/22/2009 7:58:36 PM PST
by
Semper Mark
("Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." - Mark Twain)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
**thank you...Never heard this in school.**
when I was in school... they were still allowed to say that the Pilgrims gave thanks to God
but my kids taught me that the Pilgrims gave thanks to the INDIANS...
WAITAMINIT, KID .. we need to have a little talk. by that time Rush had dropped this story in (i think) his first book.
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posted on
11/22/2009 8:02:42 PM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
To: FreeKeys
Yes I have, always great to see it again though
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posted on
11/22/2009 8:04:44 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: FreeKeys
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posted on
11/22/2009 8:29:15 PM PST
by
444Flyer
(OBAMACARE: Population control and America Killing Bill!)
To: FreeKeys
Rush tells this story every year around Thanksgiving.
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posted on
11/22/2009 8:32:44 PM PST
by
unkus
To: FreeKeys
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posted on
11/22/2009 8:40:08 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: FreeKeys
Yes, I've seen it and thanks for bringing it to the forefront again.
My family predated the colonists, they were whalers; if anyone knows about life on the sea, they know you pull your weight or stay ashore. When settlements were established on Long Island, the same rules applied but remaining ashore wasn't the option.
Happy Thanksgiving, FreeKeys!
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posted on
11/22/2009 8:50:00 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: FreeKeys
Just sent this to a bunch of friends.
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posted on
11/22/2009 9:01:52 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: FreeKeys
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posted on
11/22/2009 9:36:47 PM PST
by
sweetiepiezer
(I have a Pal in Sarah)
To: FreeKeys; RaceBannon; stowaway; jjm2111; Mrs.LoneGOPinCT; underbyte; badbackman; Bigfitz; mcswan; ..
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posted on
11/22/2009 9:38:05 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
To: FreeKeys; RaceBannon; stowaway; jjm2111; Mrs.LoneGOPinCT; underbyte; badbackman; Bigfitz; mcswan; ..
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posted on
11/22/2009 9:38:55 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
To: FreeKeys
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:03:26 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: FreeKeys
A great find, and a prescient dollop of wisdom in Bradford 400 years past. Never more applicable here than to today it would appear.
Thank you so much!
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:32:30 PM PST
by
Lexinom
To: FreeKeys
From what I have read the preamble to the Constitution originally said life liberty and pursuit of private property. But was changed because they considered it could be used by the south to legitimize slavery as slavers were considered private property.
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:54:12 PM PST
by
guitarplayer1953
(Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
To: RaceBannon
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:58:35 PM PST
by
freema
(MarineNiece,Daughter,Wife,Friend,Sister,Friend,Aunt,Friend,Mother,Friend,Cousin, FRiend)
To: FreeKeys
wow thanks, here all this time I was taught in school that “it was a harvest celebration and the Pilgrims invited the indians because the indians taught them how to grow stuff and saved them from starvation”
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posted on
11/23/2009 12:24:33 AM PST
by
KTM rider
( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
To: FreeKeys
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posted on
11/23/2009 1:28:32 AM PST
by
tallyhoe
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