Good evening again, Robert! Robert Goodman wrote to Frank Reichert...
I previously wrote: > >Lutherans began migrating into America during the > >colonial period, To which, you replied as follows: > But they were not evenly spread thru the colonies. Mostly these were > Germans who tended to wind up in Penna., Del., & NJ, and somewhat in NY, > including Lutherans & Mennonites. The Lutherans were quite Christmasy; I > really don't know about Mennonites w.r.t. Christmas, and it's important to > distinguish Amish from the rest of the Mennonites, so maybe someone can > fill us in there. I also don't know how Christmasy the Quakers were. I doubt if most orthodox Lutherans would appreciate the association with Mennonites, which by the way, comprise a significant percentage of Boundary Country, Idaho. Indeed, both groups do. > But the main point that Bill was making is that Christmas was very far from > a universally practiced holiday among Christians in British North America, > and many localities were practically Christmas-free for quite a while I suspect this might be another exercise in mouse milking, since the British, although certainly in control over government as such, did not make up everything that was then British North America! -- > especially New England before the revolution, and the southeast for decades > after 1800. > > In Your Sly Tribe, > Robert > _______________________________________________ > Libnw mailing list > [email protected] > List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw > Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw -- _____________________________________________________________________ LIBERTY NORTHWEST CONFERENCE & NEWSGROUP "The only libertarian-oriented political discussion conference on the Fidonet Z1 Backbone..." Fidonet SysOps AREAFIX: LIB_NW To subscribe or unsubscribe: http://www.liberty-northwest.org/ Liberty Northwest Home Page: http://www.liberty-northwest.org Admin matters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Liberty is never an option... only a condition to be lost _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
