http://www.innovationodyssey.com/ This website has "Innovation" in a time line of New England Milestones List presented with thanks to Thomas M. Paine We invite your suggestions and feedback. > Please note that "first" may refer to an American first or a first-ever > event. > > Respect for Native Americans > First Native American/Anglo friendship (Plymouth) > First Systematic Study of Native Languages, Translation of Bible into Native > Language, Preaching in Native Language (Roger Williams, John Eliot) > First State/Colony to Adopt Native American name (MA, CT) > > Political and Religious Freedom etc... and if you scroll down to ARTS ; a seasonal notation Celebration and Commemoration/ Arts/Icons First Thanksgiving (Plymouth, 1621) First call for Thanksgiving as National Holiday (Sarah Josepha Hale in her Boston Ladies First Christmas Tree (Charles Follen, Boston/Lexington, by 1835) Over the River and Through the Woods (Lydia Maria Child, Medford, 1844) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Edmund Hamilton Sears, Wayland, 1849) Jingle Bells (James Pierpont, Boston, 1857) > >