Thanksgiving: How Loew Can You Go?

Patty Loew: Thanksgiving traditions all based on myths

Everything you know about the "first" Thanksgiving is wrong.

Plymouth Rock...Pilgrims...Perseverance...Big feast...Happy Indians sharing in the bounty.

According to award-winning filmmaker Patty Loew, it's all bunk, except maybe the part about eating turkey. Early settlers were so hungry they ate about anything with fur or feathers. Otherwise, there is little connection between reality and the version of Thanksgiving events still taught in most schools.
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Source: The Capital Times, Madison WI

Note: Why can't we all just gather together in gratitude, celebrating and respecting an American tradition? What moves the heart of a Patty Loew to tear down a concept so wholesome as Thanksgiving? What's next, Mother's Day? Why not pick on Earth Day? After all, we will all shrivel up and die of starvation and thirst in the pursuit of preserving the earth.

Thank God for a culture that affords Ms. Loew the opportunity to express her unhappy point of view.