Thank you for the correction Stanley... I learned my English history - of which the Pilgrims were a part - in the British grammar school system, and one of my history teachers was always quite easily distracted when we asked him to tell us how he fought with Monty at El Alamein! Maybe he skipped over that distinction. :-) By way of disclosure to those who have requested the copy of the article containing Dr. Kelso's observations, I should not it was taken from TheHistoryNet.com web site, a respected and scholarly US history site. Jay Underwood Elmsdale NS > > From: "Stanley M. Berkner" <smberkner@yahoo.com> > Date: 2007/05/17 Thu PM 07:34:46 EDT > To: newbrunswick@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ NB ] Pilgrims > > Three comments: > > --- jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > > > It is a common American-derived fallacy that the > > Pilgrims ... > > So repressive were the Quakers of Oliver Cromwell, > > that the British welcomed back their king with open > > arms! > > 1. Quakers and Pilgrims were two different, and > distinct, groups of people. [Check out William Penn. > > The Jamestown colony was actually thriving and > > commercially viable long before the Mayflower landed > > at Plymoth Rock (SeeJamestown: The Buried Truth, by > > Dr. William Kelso) > > 2.Very true. Just recently watched a PBS Special on > Jamestown. > > > He theorizes that the Mayflower myth was created by > > the North during the Civil War, because Northern > > scholars were unwilling to admit that the nation > > owed its birth to Southern roots. > > 3. The way I heard it was the jamestown colonmy had > slaves, and so, we [in the north] did not want to use > them as the founders of The First Thanksgiving. > > Stan B > > > I do NOT make mistakes -- I create learning opportunities for others! > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search > http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEWBRUNSWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >From Railfare-DC Books: http://www.railfare.net/From%20Folly%20to%20Fortune.html http://railfare.net/builtforwar.html Visit the Nova Scotia Railway Hall of Fame: http://www.nsrwyhalloffame.com/ Visit the Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society: http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/