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Originally posted by Vets Dottir
Gobbler, Turkey, Pheasant, Buffalo, Bear, whatever ..... did the Pilgrims really care what they ate as long as they ate?
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Oh dear. Oh deary deary me.
This wont do; wont do at all.
pay attention, GLOWWORM
A. Thanksgiving - American. Pilgrim Fathers give thanks for not starving to death after their first devastating winter of 1620 and for the help received from the 91 indigenous Indians, a friendship and trust later shown to be a bit misplaced.
B. Thanksgiving - Canadian. A harvest festival to give thanks for the bountiful crops et al safely gathered-in for winter sustinence. Based on events of 1578 with Martin Frobisher and so a whole 42 years before the "Americans" invented it.
Please note the difference.
ends.
R.