Late last year there was an article on the NY Times website, maybe  
you all discussed it here. Talk about hooey- a few NY "historians"  
claiming Jamestown had no hold on the national development at all, it  
was a bunch of wood and mud hovels that soon fell into the mud, the  
real beginning that should get the credit was... Henry Hudson! Boy I  
wrote them a pointed letter, and my guess is I was not the only one.  
By the time the day was half gone, they had pulled the prominently  
placed article from the website. The arguments by those "historians"  
were the most biased, ignorance-based loads of baloney I have ever read.

Nancy

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On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:

> Whataloadahooey.  Typical mach a chew chetz drivel.  Yo, Ted - nice  
> tunnel !
>
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>   The following article appeared in the Tuesday, January 30, 2007  
> edition of
> the Daily Press (http://www.dailypress.com/) in the Money & Work  
> section.
>
> Selma Stewart
>
>> Another debate of historic proportions
>>
> With the 400th anniversary at hand, who looms
>> larger in history, Jamestown or Plymouth Rock?
>>
>> BY VICTOR REKLAITIS
>> 223-5682
>> January 30, 2007
>> WILLIAMSBURG -- Promoters of the Jamestown 2007 commemoration are  
>> drawing
>> fire from another historic place.
>>
>> This time, it's fans of Massachusetts' Plymouth Rock taking shots  
>> at the
>> Virginia settlement and its 400th anniversary events.
>>
>> "Virginia tosses dirt on the Rock" blared the headline of an  
>> article in
>> Sunday's Boston Globe.
>>
>> The article says, "While Jamestown's settlers came to America to  
>> look for
>> gold, get rich quick, and go home to spend it [and failed],  
>> Plymouth's Pilgrims
>> came to build an enduring community based on values."
>>
>> The promoters of Plymouth - where Pilgrims landed in 1620 - join  
>> bigwigs in
>> New York City and St. Augustine, Fla., in criticizing the hoopla  
>> around
>> Jamestown. The Jamestown 2007 commemoration, often billed as  
>> "America's 400th
>> Anniversary," is an 18-month series of events aimed at boosting  
>> tourism and
>> marking the anniversary of the New World's first permanent English  
>> settlement.
>>
>> "I think it's good for everybody," Jamestown 2007 spokesman Kevin  
>> Crossett
>> said of the debate in the recent Globe article. "Anytime we can  
>> talk about
>> Jamestown and Plymouth, I think both sides win."
>>
>> While the 1607 settlement in Virginia predates Plymouth by 13  
>> years, the
>> Massachusetts settlement traditionally has gotten much more  
>> attention from
>> history books. Crossett said 2007 organizers are not trying to  
>> toss dirt on
>> Plymouth Rock.
>>
>> "We're promoting Jamestown just to make sure that people are aware  
>> that
>> Jamestown existed," he said.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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