Five myths about the Pilgrims

Robert Tracy McKenzie is the chief of the history department at Wheaton College and "The First Thanksgiving: The real story tells us how to learn from history by loving God."

When it becomes a historical memory, the old way of saying that you can not pick your relatives is completely wrong. Americans choose pilgrims as honorary ancestors, and there is a tendency to think that their story can not be separated from the story of our country, "the land of pride of pilgrims". We imagine these honor founders as model immigrants, pacifists and pioneers of democratic experiments. We bring the values ​​that they do not recognize their story and obscure them in myths.

Go to Plymouth today, a unique rock embedded in the sand, covered with a classic Greek pouch, marked with the flag of Massachusetts Commonwealth, the size of your living room sofa You will find it.

The two popular mythical combinations continue the romantic atmosphere of Aldens' memory. Some claim that he is the first pilgrim who stepped into Plymouth Rock. The other is a legendary story from the oral tradition of the family played in the poem "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem" in courtship of common sense (1858). In that legend, Alden probably won the hands of Priscilla after cheating on her friend Standish. For this story, Priscilla Alden is remembered alone and among women in the colony of Plymouth. In the legend of a pilgrim, the story of victory of romantic love is almost unique but may not actually be the case, but still the story - especially the so-called Priscilla 's "Do not talk yourself, John" - A part of American folklore still

From the dangerous crossing of the sea to the general gratitude of the first Thanksgiving, the New England pilgrim settlement has become our most sacred national myth. But as the bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his fascinating new books, the true story of the pilgrim is more than the famous story of faith and sacrifice. This is an epic over 55 years, tragic, heroic, moving, and profound. Since diseases spread by European fishermen have destroyed their population, Mayflower religious refugees arrived at Port Plymouth during the Native American crisis. Originally two groups - Wampanoags and pilgrims in the ornate and computing power of President Massasoit, their aggressive officers Miles Standish is only 5 feet tall - maintains a fragile work relationship

Jacob S. Pilgrims from Mayflower arrived in Massachusetts today in 1620 and was named Plymouth. Plymouth was named after the harbor of British pilgrims. A group of Mayflower people was called a separatist who tried to escape Britain's Protestant control. The original destination of Mayflower was Hudson Bay. In the first few months, a lot of people lived in Mayflower, and they built a settlement on the land. After the Mayflower, three vessels headed for Plymouth. They are called wealth, Ann, Little James. When the pilgrim landed, the pilgrims were introduced to Native Americans named Squanto. Squanto is a translator between pilgrims and native Indians and their arguments brought peace to them. In autumn of 1621, pilgrims and indigenous Indians celebrated their peace with a feast called today's Thanksgiving. Separatist