WTK S1:E16 “What is the Forgotten Story of the Pilgrims’ SECOND Thanksgiving?”
(Chapter 11 page 151 of “Forgotten American Stories: Celebrating America’s Constitution”) Click here to listen: Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids, Daniel. Questions: Where can you find the account of the Pilgrims’ SECOND Thanksgiving? What is the background behind it? Why did the Pilgrims first choose the “common store” way of providing for themselves? Why did they later choose a ”free enterprise” / “free-market economy” of providing for themselves? What is the forgotten story of the Pilgrims’ SECOND Thanksgiving? What can we learn from this documented [...]
The Benevolent Lawgiver Who Made Religious Freedom The Basis Of The State – By Daniel Sheridan
#OTD, June 20, 1632, one of the wisest and benevolent lawgivers of all ages is given rights to land near the Chesapeake Bay; then, one year later, on this same day, he’s granted a Colonial Charter. One historian says he was “the first man in the world to seek for religious security, peace, and prosperity by the practice of justice, and not by the exercise of power.”Here’s the story.
Marquette’s Last Missionary Trip By Daniel W. Sheridan
By Daniel W. Sheridan On this day, May 18th, 1675, Marquette completed his mission. “I found myself in the blessed necessity of exposing my life for the salvation of these peoples, and especially of the Illinois, who have very urgently entreated me…to carry the word of God to their country.” Jacques Marquette Those are the words of Jacques Marquette, who gave his life in the service of...