On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 18:15 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 5:07 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Better description: > > http://www.fee.org/thanksgiving/ > > Interesting... but is that a reliable source? The site seems... > shall we say... somewhat biased. Can you cite another source -- one > that isn't explicitly trying to push laissez-faire economics -- that > "the first Thanksgiving" really had anything to do with that?
I had the same reaction. A little googling turned this up. http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=bradford_history.xml The spelling is unreliable, but searching for Plato will pull out the section quoted in fee.org. You will still need to do a fair amount of reading from Bradford's Journal to decide if fee.org mangled the context. > I've seen other (equally dubious) sources that assert it was > explicitly, by design, before the first one even happened, to be a day > of thanks to God that they (the colonists) made the journey safely, > blah blah blah. > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
