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Podcast: The Alan Sanders Show
Episode: William Bradford ends communalism, paving the way for Thanksgiving Day
Description: Today's show focuses on the holiday we are celebrating here in the United States of American. Today is Thanksgiving Day. But, in my lifetime, I have seen the story of the first "thanksgiving" changed and massaged so as to completely ignore one of the most profound lessons learned in the early colonial days. We all know the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower and how the American Indians around Plymouth helped keep the colonists from starving. But, what is not told any longer was how that colony had to change their governance in order to survive. On the...