This picture is from several years ago. Today we have a bright sunny, cold day with a lake that hasn't begun to freeze. I'm hoping this might remind us of what faced the Plymouth Colony when they arrived in the New World in November of 1620.
As we have often been told, many of the little colony starved to death during the first winter, almost putting an end to their project. What we have not been told is that a ship arrived from overseas on February 20, 1621, bearing the much needed food., The ship was The Lyon and it had sailed from Dublin, Ireland.
According to the Massachusetts Historical Society, the wife of one of the prominent Plymouth settlers was the daughter of a Dublin merchant; and it was he who had chartered the vessel, loaded it with food and dispatched it to Plymouth. The day after its arrival, February 21, 1621, was designated as a Day of Thanksgiving, well before the Thanksgiving Day that we hear so much about.
No comments:
Post a Comment