The Real Story of Thanksgiving

Beyond the Myths: Did you know: the first Indian/Pilgrim contact was an English-speaking Indian asking the Pilgrims for a glass of beer? the first landing was NOT on "Plymouth Rock"? early contacts were happening a century before Plymouth? 100 years before Plymouth coastal Indians shocked the explorer Verrazano with indecent gestures from the shore? Get to know Squanto as more than a man planting fish heads with cornstalks, but rather a talented diplomat. A nuanced view of some of the major characters. A different perspective of the First Thanksgiving, as well as the first years of New England long before Plymouth plantation. Book is filled with interesting graphics and images. Ghost colonies, lost colonies and strange predictions of medicine men before the founding of Plymouth.