[rollei_list] Re: USian Thanksgiving and NYC

By some accounts both the VA and MA early thanksgivings were preceded in Nov. 1613 by Adrian Block and his crew, who were marooned in Manhattan between the burning of their ship and the time it took to build a replacement. They survived the winter, in huts they built at what is now Broadway and exchange place, with the help of local Indians.
Of course this NYC-centric view of US history would only be accepted by someone who (like me) thinks that the Big Apple is the center of the universe :-). I even think that Brooklyn's Ft. Greene Park, with it's huge Doric column-topped ossuary, containing the remains of about 12,000 American sailors and soldiers, should replace Valley Forge as the main monument to the American Revolution, since more patriots died for the cause of American independence in Brooklyn (during the Battle of Long Island and, throughout the conflict, on prison hulks anchored off the Brooklyn shore) than in all the other colonies combined. 

Bob Marvin
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