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Happy Thanksgiving
Our corn did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sown. They came up very well, and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom. Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.
Edward Winslow, Plymouth in New England this 11th of December, 1621.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on November 22, 2007 at 07:10 AM in History | Permalink
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Here is an economic perspective on what we have to be thankful for. This graph shows growth of income and population over the last 2000 years.
http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/
last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/
Posted by: joan at Nov 22, 2007 10:52:22 AM
Thanksgiving: A constant reminder of how the "savages" were not nearly savage enough.
Posted by: NA at Nov 22, 2007 9:26:23 PM
"Instead of an English affair, the First Thanksgiving soon became an overwhelmingly Native celebration when Massasoit and a hundred Pokanokets (more than twice the entire English population of Plymouth) arrived at the settlement with five freshly killed deer."
Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower 117 (Penguin, 2006).
Posted by: Tyrone Slothrop at Nov 23, 2007 10:00:54 AM
Of course, that's what he said. No journalists around then to write about soup kitchens, homeless, etc. Just reminding you all about winners that write history...
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