Sqwertz wrote:
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> Yeah....Thanksgiving is a great time for families to gather and have a
>> great feast together. I would disagree about it being a tradition that
>> no one can recall. While the North American culture has changed a lot
>> over the last half century thanks to widened immigration, when I was a
>> kid it was a celebration of the harvest, and many Canadians like myself
>> have English and American (Loyalist) roots and trace it back to the
>> Massachusetts colony, which incidentally, included my wife's ancestors,
>> as well as Barak Obama's.
>
> Exact that Thangiving was born in Texas, not in Massachusetts.
>
> -sw (from Framingham, MA)


HUH? Have you never been to Plymoutn Rock? Plimoth Plantation?
Thanksgiving was being celebrated there while Texas was nothing but
armadillos.

gloria p
(from Fairhaven, MA)