Article from University of Chicago Alumni Magazine profiles the director of the Leiden Pilgrim Museum, Jeremy Bangs'67.
According to Bangs, the Pilgrims adopted the feast commemorating the end of the Spanish siege in 1574.
Going Dutch | The University of Chicago Magazine
According to Bangs, the Pilgrims adopted the feast commemorating the end of the Spanish siege in 1574.
Going Dutch | The University of Chicago Magazine
There are more than one feast every year commemorating certain events..., one of them being the birth of someone...
HollowState's cartoon just made my day (thanks!). 😀
And let's not forget the "Dutch Invasion" of the early '70's (e.g. Shocking Blue, Focus, Golden Earring, etc.).
And let's not forget the "Dutch Invasion" of the early '70's (e.g. Shocking Blue, Focus, Golden Earring, etc.).
Pilgrims for the most part were Brits that sought refuge in Holland.
Many cultures world wide have end of harvest (thanks) feasts. Some like always add political significances .
Many cultures world wide have end of harvest (thanks) feasts. Some like always add political significances .
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Funny, as school kids we were regaled with Pilgrim tales every autumn, stories of the first hard year in the New World for the early European settlers. Meanwhile in Jamestown Virginia my family was comfortably installed and engaged in the tobacco trade. And down here in Florida, the city of St Augustine was well past it's 50th year.
I suppose that the history books were all written in New England. 😛
I suppose that the history books were all written in New England. 😛
Documentation would be needed to cross border if it existed and state benefits would come from the state if it existed.
Aren't you glad they were not turned away? Where would Boston be if they were? Or is that too poitical? 😎
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Boston would probably not exist and we would not have got the band of the same name.
I rest my case:
Turning them away would have been the right thing to do.
Of course you realize that as England's coast faded astern, Myles Standish uttered that famous line to the huddled masses aboard Mayflower:
"Don't looke back!" 🙄
And let's not forget the Salem Witch Trials some 70 years hence... 😛
Hmm, some definite New England bashing going on here, proud to be from Boston, the Hub of the Universe.. 😉
My wife's ancestors arrived here within a few years of the original settlers around 1630 or so.
Boston was one guy in his basement until he (they) had to perform live.
Cradle of the revolution lest yee forget...
My wife's ancestors arrived here within a few years of the original settlers around 1630 or so.
Boston was one guy in his basement until he (they) had to perform live.
Cradle of the revolution lest yee forget...
Boston needs to be taken down a peg or two Kevin. We don't want you to think too much of yourselves. The rest of the country gets tired of being hit over the head with Boston twice a year. 😛
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