How the Pilgrims learned to cope with Plymouth's climate
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| Title: | How the Pilgrims learned to cope with Plymouth's climate |
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| Authors: | Sam White |
| Source: | Washington Post, The. 11/25/2017. |
| Abstract: | Historian writes that the Little Ice Age led to frozen winters and parched summers Every American schoolchild learns a version of the first Thanksgiving, a story half-legend and half-history: After the Pilgrims spent a freezing first winter in Plymouth, friendly Native Americans helped them learn to harvest the bounty of their new country the next year. As the Pilgrim Edward Winslow wrote in a letter late that autumn of 1621, "Many of the Indians coming amongst us . . . we entertained and feasted." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
| Database: | Regional Business News |
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| Abstract: | Historian writes that the Little Ice Age led to frozen winters and parched summers Every American schoolchild learns a version of the first Thanksgiving, a story half-legend and half-history: After the Pilgrims spent a freezing first winter in Plymouth, friendly Native Americans helped them learn to harvest the bounty of their new country the next year. As the Pilgrim Edward Winslow wrote in a letter late that autumn of 1621, "Many of the Indians coming amongst us . . . we entertained and feasted." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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