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11-26-2009, 10:42 AM
After reading Lew's post for today and seeing his reference about the florida and virginia origins I decided to pull up those issues and post them below...
November 25, 2009
Thanksgovernment Day (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/43685.html)
Posted by Lew Rockwell (lew@lewrockwell.com) on November 25, 2009 01:54 PM
The first thanksgiving proclamation was issued by Geo. Washington, in which he called on Americans to pray. Like virtually all pols, George wanted to be a religious figure too. But his call to thanksgiving for a wonderful government (and president) fell flat in those freer days. The proclamation that stuck was from Lincoln during his war on dissenting Southerners and Northerners. Abe’s edict had three purposes: to cement Abe as a religious figure; to have Yankees thank God for him, his war, and his government; and to erase the memory of the earlier thanksgivings by the Spanish in Florida and the English in Virginia, to make it seem as if America were founded in Massachusetts. As for me, I will give thanks tomorrow that I am an anarcho-capitalist and do not worship the emperor nor the empire.
http://www.flahum.org/Assets/PDFs/fhcblog/RealFirstThanksGiving.pdf
America's REAL First Thanksgiving (Florida Style) (http://floridahumanitiescouncil.blogspot.com/2009/11/americas-first-real-thanksgiving-in.html)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d8SlNBhoNLE/Sv2HRmSYQzI/AAAAAAAAABs/nEws72IsVhY/s400/Group.gif (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d8SlNBhoNLE/Sv2HRmSYQzI/AAAAAAAAABs/nEws72IsVhY/s1600-h/Group.gif)As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches school children everywhere are dusting off their Pilgrim costumes and asking their parents for contributions of turkey, dressing, and cranberry sauce for classroom recreations of the famous Plymouth meal. But Florida schoolchildren in particular should really be researching the attire of Spanish soldiers and Timucuan Indians and asking grandma to help them find garbanzo beans and chorizo sausage for their communal school meal.
That’s because, as historian Michael Gannon tells us, the REAL first Thanksgiving took place in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565, some 56 years before the legendary meal in Massachusetts. The meal, shared by Spanish soldiers and natives of the Seloy tribe, was a celebration of the safe arrival of the Spanish expedition of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Dr. Gannon’s claims have earned him the moniker “The Grinch Who Stole Thanksgiving” in New England circles. Read the full story of the real first Thanksgiving in this article (http://www.flahum.org/Assets/PDFs/fhcblog/RealFirstThanksGiving.pdf) from FHC’s Forum magazine from the fall of 2006.
Then check out some of the other resources FHC has created for teachers and the general public, including a downloadable poster (http://www.flahum.org/index.cfm/do/Teachers.Teacher_Resources/Teacher_Resources.htm#Resources) that shows a comparative timeline of the British and Spanish Colonial experiences in the New World (available in both English and Spanish), coloring book (http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=teachers&m=hrdb&t=thanksgiving) drawings of the First Thanksgiving meal in St. Augustine , resources from FHC’s “Spanish Colonial St. Augustine” (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=teachers) teacher resource website, and a radio program (listen (http://www.flahum.org/Assets/mp3s/fhcblog/08-04WhyStAugustine.mp3)/download (http://www.flahum.org/Assets/mp3s/fhcblog/08-04WhyStAugustine.zip)) on colonial St. Augustine history, And learn about Robyn Gioia (http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2007-11-20-first-thanksgiving_N.htm), the Florida teacher that published a children’s book, America's REAL First Thanksgiving (http://new.pineapplepress.com/) (search by book title,) after attending FHC’s Colonial St. Augustine summer seminar for teachers. Then look into your own opportunities to attend FHC’s popular St. Augustine seminar in the summer of 2010 (http://www.flahum.org/index.cfm/do/Teachers.Seminars/Seminars.htm).
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November 25, 2009
Thanksgovernment Day (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/43685.html)
Posted by Lew Rockwell (lew@lewrockwell.com) on November 25, 2009 01:54 PM
The first thanksgiving proclamation was issued by Geo. Washington, in which he called on Americans to pray. Like virtually all pols, George wanted to be a religious figure too. But his call to thanksgiving for a wonderful government (and president) fell flat in those freer days. The proclamation that stuck was from Lincoln during his war on dissenting Southerners and Northerners. Abe’s edict had three purposes: to cement Abe as a religious figure; to have Yankees thank God for him, his war, and his government; and to erase the memory of the earlier thanksgivings by the Spanish in Florida and the English in Virginia, to make it seem as if America were founded in Massachusetts. As for me, I will give thanks tomorrow that I am an anarcho-capitalist and do not worship the emperor nor the empire.
http://www.flahum.org/Assets/PDFs/fhcblog/RealFirstThanksGiving.pdf
America's REAL First Thanksgiving (Florida Style) (http://floridahumanitiescouncil.blogspot.com/2009/11/americas-first-real-thanksgiving-in.html)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d8SlNBhoNLE/Sv2HRmSYQzI/AAAAAAAAABs/nEws72IsVhY/s400/Group.gif (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d8SlNBhoNLE/Sv2HRmSYQzI/AAAAAAAAABs/nEws72IsVhY/s1600-h/Group.gif)As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches school children everywhere are dusting off their Pilgrim costumes and asking their parents for contributions of turkey, dressing, and cranberry sauce for classroom recreations of the famous Plymouth meal. But Florida schoolchildren in particular should really be researching the attire of Spanish soldiers and Timucuan Indians and asking grandma to help them find garbanzo beans and chorizo sausage for their communal school meal.
That’s because, as historian Michael Gannon tells us, the REAL first Thanksgiving took place in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565, some 56 years before the legendary meal in Massachusetts. The meal, shared by Spanish soldiers and natives of the Seloy tribe, was a celebration of the safe arrival of the Spanish expedition of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Dr. Gannon’s claims have earned him the moniker “The Grinch Who Stole Thanksgiving” in New England circles. Read the full story of the real first Thanksgiving in this article (http://www.flahum.org/Assets/PDFs/fhcblog/RealFirstThanksGiving.pdf) from FHC’s Forum magazine from the fall of 2006.
Then check out some of the other resources FHC has created for teachers and the general public, including a downloadable poster (http://www.flahum.org/index.cfm/do/Teachers.Teacher_Resources/Teacher_Resources.htm#Resources) that shows a comparative timeline of the British and Spanish Colonial experiences in the New World (available in both English and Spanish), coloring book (http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=teachers&m=hrdb&t=thanksgiving) drawings of the First Thanksgiving meal in St. Augustine , resources from FHC’s “Spanish Colonial St. Augustine” (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=teachers) teacher resource website, and a radio program (listen (http://www.flahum.org/Assets/mp3s/fhcblog/08-04WhyStAugustine.mp3)/download (http://www.flahum.org/Assets/mp3s/fhcblog/08-04WhyStAugustine.zip)) on colonial St. Augustine history, And learn about Robyn Gioia (http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2007-11-20-first-thanksgiving_N.htm), the Florida teacher that published a children’s book, America's REAL First Thanksgiving (http://new.pineapplepress.com/) (search by book title,) after attending FHC’s Colonial St. Augustine summer seminar for teachers. Then look into your own opportunities to attend FHC’s popular St. Augustine seminar in the summer of 2010 (http://www.flahum.org/index.cfm/do/Teachers.Seminars/Seminars.htm).
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