Why do we celebrate the Plymouth Thanksgiving when the first Thanksgiving was in
the Virginia colony? In fact, its seems like the Virginia story has largely been forgotten by many Americans. A lot of people think that the Mayflower (1620) was the beginning of settlement when it was really 13 years after Jamestown (1607).
Years of elementary school history lessons taught us that Plymouth, Massachusetts, was the site of the first Thanksgiving. Those lessons were false. A year and 17 days before those Pilgrims ever stepped foot upon New England soil, a group of...