Given that we Episcopalians have fews strictures on our thinking and doing, I believe (for the purpose of our little parish celebration) that I shall define the 'First Virginia Thanksgiving of English Colonists' as the service at Cape Henry on April 26, 1607.  I'm sure that one reason for putting up the cross was to give thanks that they had made it across the cruel sea.

Thanks for all the responses.

And just to show you that we are not trashing our New-England late-comer friends, we are weaving into the service of Holy Eucharist the music of William Billings the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  CHESTER, BE GLAD THEN AMERICA, WHEN JESUS WEPT, with a special appearance of the "Piedmont Parish (18th century) Band of Musick", to offer a selection from THE MARTIAL MUSIC OF CAMP DUPONT as the postlude.  Come join us.


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