[Sca-cooks] Canadian Friends

[johnna holloway]

Found part of what I remember. I was
thinking Texas, but actually there's others.
See:
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/alternat.htm

for their list.
Johnna Holloway Johnnae llyn Lewis

Terry Decker wrote:>
> Very possible, but I haven't come across a reference for them.>
> Espejo's expedition into the Southwest in 1582 marks the beginning of
> Spanish colonization.  Onate became the first governor of New Mexico in
> 1598.  Santa Fe, the oldest city in the Southwest, was officially
> established in 1609, although it was a native pueblo long before that.>
> The longest running and best known thanksgiving celebration in the
> Southwest, Fiesta de Santa Fe, celebrates the reconquest of New Mexico in
> 1692 after the Spanish were forced out by the Pueblo Uprising of 1680.>
> Bear
>
> >I've seen articles that there were "harvest"
> >feasts of thanks that were held out in the
> >Spanish controlled colonies of the southwest
> >U.S.A. in the late 1500's. Can't cite the exact
> >reference, as that set of books is boxed.
> >
> >Johnnae llyn Lewis Johnna Holloway