I think if we are all honest, most of us would have taken the corn. When your option is to starve and winter is about there, gee folks, I think I would eat the corn. They did not know yet if the Indians would be friendly and probably didn't even know where the Indians were, so how could they approach them to ask and say thanks? I think they took care of this at their Thanksgiving celebration. We need to stop looking at this 1620 situation with 2002 eyes! How can you be sure what you would do unless you were in this situation? Gail Adams Editor, The Howland Quarterly