Yet one more example of the free market's triumph over socialism.

This is a great story to tell to those around your table today.

Link, please.

Link, please.

Click the source "Sierra Times" near the title of the post.

The first Thanksgiving Feasts in what is now the United States were held in Texas, New Mexico, Florida and Maine. There are a number of stories about them, but only one led directly to the feast we hold today.

It was held about 1598 (according to the Hardin family tradition) or 1604 (according to "official history") near Bar Harbor, Maine. The participants were French Protestants looking for a new home and refuge. They were also looking for business. Lescarbo, one of their number, wrote the first play in America. This website provides the basics of their situation: http://www.grassroutes.com/clare/acadian.htm

These gentlemen held a Feast of Thanksgiving for surviving a year in the wilderness in America.

About 1613 Sir Samuel Argall raided this colony. He took a number of Protestants South to Virginia. Shortly after the settlers at Jamestown held a Thanksgiving Feast under the auspices of the Frenchmen from Maine.

By 1621 these same Frenchmen had gone into the business of selling real-estate with their friend John Smith. One of the places they sold was Plymouth Plantation. When the Pilgrims finally held a Thanksgiving Feast (was that 1624?) it was in the presence of several of the French Protestants in their company - all men with close ties of blood, marriage and business partnership with the Frenchmen who had sold them the property.

So, it is not just one Thanksgiving Feast, it is at least 3, or maybe 4, and possibly as many as 31 of them! And they were all fomented and prosecuted by members of a single company of French Protestants who had been driven into exile by their government's persecution of them for having chosen where they wished to attend church.

So, it's not to the Pilgrims that I look, or even to Jamestown, but to a small band of brave men who sought freedom on the rockbound coast of Maine 400 years ago.

The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, "instead of famine now God gave them plenty," Bradford wrote, "and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God." Thereafter, he wrote, "any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day." In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn....

Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them.

The collusion to conceal this is yet another reason to keep our kids out of government schools.

Speaking of hijacking Thanksgiving, have you seen what's happened in New York this morning?

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         Hillary's Parade         

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The former First Lady has big Thanksgiving plans to rise above her New York troubles.

Click on Moose and Squirrel for the link!

	BUT THERE IS MORE:  Edward Rawson,  my 9-Great Grandfather
The REST of the Story This first "thanksgiving" feast was not repeated the following year. In fact, it wasn't until June of 1676 that another Day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed. On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. The following is that proclamation: "The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present War with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions: The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favor, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being persuaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and souls as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."
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By 1621 these same Frenchmen had gone into the business of selling real-estate with their friend John Smith. One of the places they sold was Plymouth Plantation.

Not sure where you got any of this. However, the Pilgrims got their title from the Plymouth Company, which got it from the King. John Smith had done some exploring in the New England area, but he certainly never had any title to the land.

The King, himself, was hardly a broker. In those days, just like today, folks ordinarily sought out the services of brokers who made deals. John Smith left Virginia and returned to England where he wrote books hyping land in America. He also brokered various "deals".

He had very, very close relationships with the Huguenots who did a bit of land brokerage themselves.

It's not enough to read about the activities of the various land "development" companies - you have to get behind that and read all about the activities of the folks who pulled money together with skill.

Unfortunately there's not a lot of materials concerning the details of the Virginia Companie, for example, because the "evidence" was destroyed. Same with most of those companies. And the brokers? - We would probably guess correctly that they had something to do with that.