I know this story - I think they had weapons of mass destruction,
too.
Seems the further away we get from history, the more it changes.
Must have something to do with no standards or licensure to call
oneself historian.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is nothing sacred? Tom, better cancel those indian outfits. The
> History Channel will be airing "The Untold Story of the Mayflower"
> on Nov 19. It is going to shatter some legends with facts. For
> instance,
>
> How did even that many survive? In his history of Plymouth Colony,
> Governor William Bradford himself provides one answer: robbing
> Indian houses and graves. The Mayflower hove to first at Cape Cod.
> An armed company of Pilgrims staggered out. Eventually they found
a
> deserted Indian habitation. The newcomershungry, cold, sickdug
> open burial sites and ransacked homes, looking for underground
> stashes of food. After two days of nervous work, the company
hauled
> ten bushels of maize back to the Mayflower, carrying much of the
> booty in a big metal kettle the men had also stolen. "And sure it
> was God's good providence that we found this corn," Winslow
> wrote, "for else we know not how we should have done."
>
> Will Keady get the blame for this? The WASPS in Ocean Township are
> going to have a sh*tfit!
>
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