Well, here we are. After tracking the fight in the halls of Congress and seeing the government closed for days on end, it certainly does not appear that our leaders met in the middle. So very many issues are still pending resolution and clarification – like the debacle of The Affordable Care Act launch. Here all seem to be together in the admission of the mess the launch created and how difficult it is for those who must sign up. That’s the only thing we seem to have met in the middle about. Frankly, I have had enough for the moment. I decided it was time to remind myself how this country, the United States of America began and how the upcoming holiday we will celebrate this month began.
First, migration of all the earth’s people has gone on since the beginning of mankind and so I shall start my retrospective from the Pilgrims’ perspective when they arrived by accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Incidentally, there was a colonization attempt that pre-dated the Mayflower. It was the Popham Gorges Colony in Maine in 1607. Another story altogether. Then of course there was Jamestown. Yet, another story. But, I want to concentrate on the story of the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving as they met in 1621 to …show more content…
But, wealth would not spare him. He would die in that first horrifying year and William Bradford would become governor in 1621. The written document is now known as the Mayflower Compact. Eventually, the Pilgrims found Indian houses in the village of Patuxet belonging to the Wampanoag tribe that had been abandoned and they resolved to pay them if they returned. The winter months would be filled with hardships and an astonishing number of the 73 men and 29 females – 50% perished. This Plymouth Rock area would become their settlement. Bradford appears to be the first to use the word Pilgrim when he quoted from Hebrews
First, migration of all the earth’s people has gone on since the beginning of mankind and so I shall start my retrospective from the Pilgrims’ perspective when they arrived by accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Incidentally, there was a colonization attempt that pre-dated the Mayflower. It was the Popham Gorges Colony in Maine in 1607. Another story altogether. Then of course there was Jamestown. Yet, another story. But, I want to concentrate on the story of the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving as they met in 1621 to …show more content…
But, wealth would not spare him. He would die in that first horrifying year and William Bradford would become governor in 1621. The written document is now known as the Mayflower Compact. Eventually, the Pilgrims found Indian houses in the village of Patuxet belonging to the Wampanoag tribe that had been abandoned and they resolved to pay them if they returned. The winter months would be filled with hardships and an astonishing number of the 73 men and 29 females – 50% perished. This Plymouth Rock area would become their settlement. Bradford appears to be the first to use the word Pilgrim when he quoted from Hebrews