Posted on 11/22/2009 7:41:26 PM PST by hoguenews
My attempt to squash your romantic view of Thanksgiving! Mayflower Myths:The reason that we have so many myths associated with Thanksgiving is that it is an invented tradition. It doesn’t originate in any one event. It is based on the New England puritan Thanksgiving, which is a religious Thanksgiving, and the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England and maybe other ideas like commemorating the pilgrims. All of these have been gathered together and transformed into something different from the original parts. James W. Baker Senior Historian at Plymouth Plantation.
There are more at the link...
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should have used, (but did not)
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Journalisits : an erronous spelling of the freeper word "Journaleezits," meaning treasonous leaks fed to gluttonous presstitutes like so many stinky Cheezits made of limberger instead of cheddar.
I've found to my horror that whenever I get an urge to correct someone's spelling, or their use of the English language, that the gremlins in the machine inevitably insure that any response on my part includes a suitably humbling mistake such as "journalisits."
Don’t know if this might be of interest to you, but Roger Williams is my great grandfather...many generations removed.
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Seems like blogspot will give a blog to anybody these days...where is the world heading?
I personally give thanks for all the good that has transpired across the years and generations that have made this country the greatest place on earth. And I will continue to pray for that future regardless the darkening clouds that gather over it now.
You’re right. I stand corrected.
There I go, typing too fast again. LOL!
Well, continue to celebrate it while you can because before long I’m sure the Democrats will proclaim Thanksgiving to be a violation of the Seperation of Church and State provision of the constitution and will get the ACLU to outlaw it.
Two of the Indian friends were Samoset and Squanto. Both had lived in England before the Pilgrims had come to America. Squanto was as well-spoken as any Englishman and he was actually more traveled than many of the Pilgrims. Without these two Indians who befriended the Pilgrims and helped to pave the way to a peace treaty and a mutual assistance in hunting and planting crops, Thanksgiving as we know it might not have happened.
Actually, Europeans had been coming to America for quite some time before the establishment of Jamestown as a permanent colony. Fishing ships harbored off the coast. Trappers collected pelts and traded Indians for pelts. Explorers mapped the coasts and rivers. These were many temporary settlements and interactions with both friendly and hostile Indians, including capturing Indians who were taken back to Europe.
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Really?
I have his albums.
Michael Medved talks about how Christmas wasn’t a big deal in the late 1700’s, and how it wasn’t a big thing until the late 19th century. Interesting.
Well, I thought it was interesting that your great grandfather (8) thought that my great grandfather’s seperatist teachings were well approved. This was prior to his founding of the city of Providence. But, I’m glad you had the good fortune to catch him on album...didn’t know he’d made any.
LOL!
“Over FIVE of you Freepers didn’t read the by-line”
over five... is that like 6 or 60? And as a matter of record, your screen name is hoguenews and the link is hoguenews.com or some such. It’s on your blog. One would assume that if you’re posting something on your blog in the manner in which it was posted that you at the very least approve of it. Why would you try to distance yourself from it now?
One would only correctly insert the comma before the parenthesised verbiage if the comma would also be appropriate absent the parentheses. So, if you re-read the sentence, you'll see that no comma is needed, and have the delightful chance to make careful note of your error and perhaps learn a couple things.
1. No comma unless and until I say so.
2. As the good folks at Mensa can tell you, there are far more productive ways for you to waste your time than trying to correct my grammar and punctuation. You errantly arrogant tit.
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“Europeans had been coming to America for quite some time before the establishment of Jamestown as a permanent colony.”
the point is that the Pilgrims are celebrated as the “first settlers” and they weren’t.
The fur traders etc didn’t establish permanent colonies until Jamestown.
I am just curious. To whom do we give thanks on this Official Government Holiday? I mean, it cannot be God. Who could it possibly be?
Screwed up on the very title. Cannot take ANYTHING that follows as necessarily coming from an educated mind, given the simple inability to differentiate a contraction from a possessive (genitive) form.
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