Hey everyone welcome the Conversations that Matter podcast my name is

John Harris a little short podcast today I wanted to show you something that a friend

of mine Bev Sullivan he's been on the show once before sent me, is called

Ditching Socialism in the New World a lesson for 21st century Americans.

And it is by Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth

settlement but paraphrased by B. Nathaniel Sullivan. Bev is how he usually goes I think his name is Bev Sullivan on Facebook. Anyway, you can

get a Word Foundations.com if you want a copy of this and I think he was just sending

it to me for me to check out but I actually appreciate what he's done so much I figured

I would just do a podcast about it a little bit of historical background here the first

Thanksgiving technically was not the

pilgrims. The first Thanksgiving did not happen in Massachusetts, the

first American Thanksgiving. I mean the people of God have been giving

thanks for thousands of years. So the concept of Thanksgiving isn't a new one but in the

new world we generally think of the Pilgrims as that's the first Thanksgiving.

Actually the first Thanksgiving was in Virginia on December 4th, 1619, at least as far as we know.

And this was after 10 weeks at sea. 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley 100, about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown.

On that day, Captain John Woodleaf held the first service of Thanksgiving as the newly landed settlers fell to

their knees to thank God for their safe arrival. The charter of Berkeley

100 stated we ordain that the day of our ships arrival at the place

assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually

kept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God. And it was all about prayer. Some of the foods they ate were, and these are kind of interesting to me, they had bacon, peas, cornmeal, cakes, and here's the interesting one, cinnamon water.

I've never had cinnamon water. I was just put cinnamon and water, I guess, I don't know.

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