Happy Thanksgiving to our US members.  I hope you enjoy this forwarded
message.  Barb

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 09:22:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Janet Landeen <[log in to unmask]>
To: barb -- Barbara Patterson <[log in to unmask]>
From: Phil Daley <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Nancy Noyes <[log in to unmask]>
>Some of you got this already, sorry if it's a repeat.  Happy T-Day.
>
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>Subject: Who were the Pilgrims?
>
> Who Were The Pilgrims?
>
> This is a selection from a book called "Then Some Other
> Things Happened", a collection of short pieces about
> history written by eighth graders and compiled by Bill
> Lawrence, a teacher and columnist.                           .:.
>                                                          .:. \|/  .:.
> The Pilgrims were a         _               \\,///       \|/  |   \|/
> bunch of English          _/_\_   ___       \\|///    <#> |  \|<#> |
> wonderers who              (")   /.-.\       (")\\       \|<#>|/  \| /
> wanted to        _        //U\\  |(")|      //-\\\        |  \| /<#>/
> worship as      ( )   _   \|_|/  /)v(\  <#>_/|_|/\\     \ |/  |/  \|
> they wanted    (_` )_('>   | |   \/~\/       |||\\\      \|   |    |/
> to.  They      (__,~_)8    |||   //_\\       ||| \\       |/ \| / \| /
> escaped     jgs   _YY_    _[|]_ /_____\     _[|]_        \|   |/   |/
> the Church  """"""""'""'""'"""""'""""'""'"""'"""""''"'"""^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> of England
> and came over here because they heard that American churches were dif-
> ferent.  The May Flower was the ship with which they came in.  It didn't
> have a bathroom on board so there was quite an odor.  Priscilla Mullins
> was the captain.
>
> First the Pilgrims had gone to Holland but left when their children
> started developing customs there.  After a stopover at Williamsburg when
> a large storm blew them off course they landed on a big, slimey rock in
> Massachusetts.  They spent the winter there.
>
> Before they got off the ship even they drew up an agreement for the
> people of Plymouth to agree on the voting for governors and congressmen.
> They kept this hid in the May Flower Compact.  Lord Delaware was elected
> the first governor of Plymouth Rock.
>
>         .-""""-._.'|                  A friendly Indian named Rhone Oak
>        /     '.|   |                  showed the Pilgrams how to plant
>       /        |   /        (         corn by putting it in the ground.
>      |      -= |  /|         )  (
>      |         |/`< )            )            Rhone Oak had been the
>      ;       -=|  _|         ______           first Indian to come to
>       \        \  /        .'      `. /)      America and always wanted
>        '._ _.-""-.<      .'          `\/)     a beer.  He traveled
>          / /      \     / ___     .--'`/|     around with Miles Standy
>       _ / |        '-._( ____\   (____/_/=,   and translated language.
>      ( \|  \      -=/  /--;==============`    He knew enough English to
>    ._,;'\==='-,..__/__/__.'                   interupt.
>   `'--/,/     || '  \
>      / |  /   ||  '  \        Another interupter for the white man was
>      \/  .    ||      ;       Squanto, who was called that because he
> jgs  /   /    ||      |       was so short.  Squanto drew up a declara-
>     |  .      ||      |       tion to give the settlers freedom of
>     /         '=------|       goverment in the new land.  The Pilgrams
>    / '    ;      ;   ;|       gave the Indians thanks for all this and
>   `-.___.___.___.___._/       that's what started Thanksgiving.
>
> The Pilgrams then appointed      |     But if these people wouldn't
> Thanksgiving as a national       |      had of come to America the
> holiday.  Abraham  Lincoln       |       United States wouldn't
> later pronounced it and gave     |    \       be like it is       /
> it to them and it soon became    |     `I=.       today.      .=I`
> a national holiday all around    |     /|\ `"=I._       _.I="` /|\
> the world.                       |    |/|\|  /|\ `"=I="` /|\  |/|\|
>                                  |    |/|\| |/|\|  /|\  |/|\| |/|\|
> These people always wore old     |    |/#\| |/|\| |/|\| |/|\| |/#\|
> shoes with a big buckle on the   |    |###| |/#\| |/|\| |/#\| |###|
> top of them.  The men wore       |     \#/  |###| |/#\| |###|  \#/
> pants that only came a little    |      `    \#/  |###|  \#/    `
> ways past the knees and the      |            `   |###|   `    jgs
> girls wore funny bonnets.        |                 \#/
>           _                                         `       _
>          (_'-----------------------------------------------'_)
>          (_.===============================================._)
>
>                Another Child's View Of The Pilgrims...
>
> During the Renaissance America began.  Christopher Columbus was a great
> navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.  His
> ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
>
> Later the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and the was called the Pilgrim's
> Progress.  When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by
> Indians, who came down the hill rolling their was hoops before them.
>
> The Indian squabs carried porposies on their back.  Many of the Indian
> heroes were killed, along with their cabooses, which proved very fatal
> to them.
>
> The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers.  Many people died
> and many babies were born.  Captain John Smith was responsible for all
> this.
>         .--.-.
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>
Phil Daley
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Henniker, NH 03242
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley