SC - Pilgrims and The Plimoth Plantation Museum Page

[Elaine Koogler]

I ran into something similar when I was teaching in Massachusetts many years
ago.  Turns out that they were teaching the the Plymouth colony was the first
permanent English settlement in the New World...and that the first Thanks giving
was held there in 1621 or so.  Not so.  The first permanent English settlement
in the New World was at Jamestown, Virignia, begun in 1607.  The first
Thanksgiving was held at Berkeley Plantation, also in Virginia, in 1617, I
think...perhaps earlier.

Kiri

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> >I've never heard of a "Pilgrim" prohibition against eating any particular
> >thing.  But grade school texts are notoriously full of gapping errors.  (Of
> >course, if your son's school is anything like my son's school, the teacher
> >will through a hissy fit and mark him wrong if he spits back anything other
> >than what's in his textbook.)  Could you offer to make a presentation to
> >his
> >class?
> This thread reminds me of my daughter's history class in 12th grade.  They
> did a five minute brush over of the hack/slash and pillage Vikings.  WRONG!
> My Viking daughter, Morningstar, asked to take over the class later that
> week and went in - in persona - with all kinds of documentation and foods
> and maps and art.  She wow'd em.  The teacher learned a thing or two too.
>
> Olwen
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