The Birth of Thanksgiving -- correction, please
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/the-birth-of-thanskgiving/?_r=0
Dear Editor:
The first Thanksgiving was September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida,
involving newly landed Spanish settlers and Native Americans, some 55 years
before Plymouth.
America's first Hispanics, first African Americans, first Catholics and first
Jews attended the first Thanksgiving here after 800 settlers landed and said the
first Catholic Mass on these shores.
The Anglophilic Plymouth "First Thanksgiving" myth is both ethnocentric and
wrong.
Please correct this error.
Thank you!
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085
904-377-4998
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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