It starts off with this:
" So you know the whole story about how the Pilgrims were starving a few years until the Native Americans taught them how to farm, then they had true abundance & thus, Thanksgiving was born?"
Yeah, that’s all BS. <<< LINK
Here's a snapshot of the beginning of the thread:
Click on the link above to go read the thread. It's an interesting synopsis from a history book written
back in 1876. Back when history wasn't rewritten. The author was Born in 1794 and died in
1878. BRYANT<<<
Anyway, Just the thought of reading about the history of the US back 150 years ago I went shopping.
These just arrived. Now I have some winter reading to do.
Disclaimer: This is not a political post.
ReplyDeleteRush Limbaugh had a Thanksgiving tradition of talking about this. Here is the link.
The True Story of Thanksgiving
https://officialrushlimbaugh.com/the-true-story-of-thanksgiving/
I will check it out. I never listened to Rush.
DeleteI only caught him by happenstance when driving. His Rush Revere books are good for telling history in an entertaining way for kids.
DeleteBullshit! The Real reason is because they ran out of booze and had to go find resources to make more.
ReplyDeleteBooze, too much or lack there of, is the reason for many problems :)
Deleteno booze, no way to purify water, you die of thirst. or worse.
DeleteWhere did you find those books?
ReplyDeleteThere's a fifth volume FYI.
I got them on EBay.
DeleteBooze in those days meant "Rum", and was imported from Cuba as molasses and sugar, then fermented and drunk. (Or was it drunk then fermented? I never could get those arranged.)
ReplyDeleteYou're drunk right now aren't you? ;-)
DeleteAn interesting post on Twitter?
ReplyDeleteYou probably startled it, as it was in an unfamiliar place.
Fixed that for ya.
DeleteBack from the ancient times when "History" wasn't a form of fiction and "creative" writing.
ReplyDeleteWell, the soil the idiot communists were trying to farm was poor, in comparison to European soil. And yet the problem has more to do with communism than anything else.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't help that most of the pilgrims weren't farmers to begin with, more like well-educated city dwellers who thought they could do farming.
And more and more...
One side of the family was Old Dutch, and a pretty literate bunch at that. The other side was beer drinking Germans, hard workers and capable, hands-on folks, though nowhere near as literate. The Dutch were serious readers and had plenty books of their times. Sadly, a large collection went up in smoke in a house fire in the early Depression years, but a few were saved.
ReplyDeleteOne that is exceptional: The Lincoln Library of Essential Information; my copy is by The Frontier Press Company, Buffalo, New York, 1926. Over 2,100 pages with the inscription: "An Up-To-Date Manual For Daily Reference, For Self-Instruction, and for General Culture Named in Appreciative Remembrance of Abraham Lincoln The Foremost American Exemplar of Self-Education. Planned, Prepared, and Completed Since the World War". About the size of a 7" x 10" church hymnal, but 3" thick. Pretty much covers everything from A to Z, but unlike any reference book I have ever seen. Even used it as an information source many, many years ago in school. Unlike most of my college books that are in boxes, this one sits out within easy reach everywhere we have lived. If you can find one for sale go for it-you won't be disappointed. Even covers the Pilgrims and their failure to prosper in the early years.
LOTS of us already knew this, thanks to Rush. They sure as heck didn't teach this in Civics in HS, even back in the early 70's!
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one for whom the text here has gotten *really* small? I'm not seeing this on any other webpages that I frequent.
ReplyDeletejabrwok, each post can have it's own text and font size.The Author's choice. Usually the default is the one I personally stay with unless I chose to highlight something for emphasis. Try holding the control key then "+" or "-" to
Deleteincrease page size.
Jabrwok, Ace of Spades also uses microfonts. You need a microscope to read some of these blogs on a cellphone. Check your browser settings and increase your own default font size by 1 or 2, or just do Ctrl + on your active tab. I do this all the time.
Delete...and if you're using Firefox, you can set the font size for display in Tools, Settings, General, Language and Appearance
DeleteNemo
Drew, Nemo, thanks for the feedback. I've done all those things, so I don't know why the font was so small. Gremlins probably:-)
DeleteI guess we must have had really old textbooks when I was in grade school back in the 60s, as this is not news to me at all. If I can drag up the memory of what they taught us way back then ... The Pilgrims were an uppity bunch, left England over their dissident views, went to Holland, weren't popular there either, had to leave, so try America. Their ship's captain was bribed to not take them to Virginia but to dump them somewhere else. They landed at Plymouth, found a ready to go farming village, abandoned. They moved in. They started out trying to grow the cash crop (tobacco?) they'd been chartered to raise, instead of growing food. Didn't work. They tried living under true communism/socialism where all could take from the communal "abundance" but this quickly failed, as many of them were drunken layabouts who contributed nothing. Winter came, hardly any food other than codfish from the bay. Sickness and starvation. Come Spring, the survivors meet Squanto, who turns them on to organic fertilizer: drop a little fish in the ground and then plant over that. That crop prospered. Changes to their communal policy - via John Smith - got everyone working if they wanted dinner. Come fall they had plenty, and partied for 3 days with the local peaceful Indians. Thus the first Thanksgiving, and the lesson that hard work works, and socialism doesn't. Puritans showed up on the next couple of boats and things got ugly quickly, leading to the genocidal war on the Pequot tribe and then the witch hunts. I remember the 3rd grade reading assignments "Mr. Worldly Wiseman" from The Pilgrim's Progress, and Young Goodman Brown used to illustrate their religious worldview of super harsh Calvinism. Pretty profound lessons, and then we went back to coloring hand turkeys.
ReplyDeleteWas the leader in the first half of the story a guy named Brandon?
DeleteWas the leader in the first half of the story a guy named Brandon?
DeleteThis is why I saved my Dad's collection of American Heritage books. They can re-write history all they want on the internet, but they can't change the books!
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