Comments on: Debunking Thanksgiving myths http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/ Management and Creative Thinking Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:45:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thanksgiving: a myth-debunking, record-straightening roundup - Jack & Jill Politics http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-600424 Thanksgiving: a myth-debunking, record-straightening roundup - Jack & Jill Politics Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:21:12 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/#comment-600424 [...] Last week I met Scott Berkun at the Web 2.0 Expo. I just found this 2007 post on his website which debunks a number of Thanksgiving myths. [...] [...] Last week I met Scott Berkun at the Web 2.0 Expo. I just found this 2007 post on his website which debunks a number of Thanksgiving myths. [...]

]]> By: Jason Crawford http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-599351 Jason Crawford Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:07:52 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/#comment-599351 Maybe the biggest myth is that the Pilgrims were the ones who held the first Thanksgiving. Actually, it was held on the Berkeley Plantation in VA, on Dec 4, 1919--over a year before the Pilgrims hit Plymouth Rock. (Berkeley was just upstream from Jamestown--the first permanent English settlement in America, having been established in 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Plantation Maybe the biggest myth is that the Pilgrims were the ones who held the first Thanksgiving. Actually, it was held on the Berkeley Plantation in VA, on Dec 4, 1919–over a year before the Pilgrims hit Plymouth Rock. (Berkeley was just upstream from Jamestown–the first permanent English settlement in America, having been established in 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims.)

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]]> By: Biggest myths in world history? Help a school teacher « Scott Berkun http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-589228 Biggest myths in world history? Help a school teacher « Scott Berkun Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:43:21 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/debunking-thanksgiving-myths/#comment-589228 [...] myth of the first thanksgiving being a happy, friendly, wonderful time [...] [...] myth of the first thanksgiving being a happy, friendly, wonderful time [...]

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