[Sca-cooks] New Thanksgiving Cookbook

[Elaine Koogler]

Ron Carnegie wrote:

>Don't believe everything they teach at Berkely Plantation. Their history is a little warped and contrived.  If you were to believe them most of American History began at Berkeley!  
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>Ranald De Balinhard
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Actually, I obtained this information from history books, several of 
them, about Virginia history.  When I lived and taught public school in 
Massachusetts, I learned, much to my amusement, that Plimouth Plantation 
was the first permanent English settlement!  No mention was made in 
their school texts of Jamestown or Williamsburg (not the first colony, 
but very important in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods).   And 
then, of course, there's the ongoing dispute between Harvard and William 
& Mary as to which was the first English college/university.  The truth 
appears to be that William & Mary was chartered first, but that Harvard 
was the first in actual operation. 

Kiri  ;-)