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Submitted by kidglove14 on April 25, 2006
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Beyond the obvious quality of truth-discovery, revisionist history has an appeal in the humor that is often found when comparing fact to fiction. James and Patricia Scott Deetz, hereafter referred to as “Deetz” because, apparently, all but two of the two-hundred and ninety-one pages were written by James (this accreditation process following the spirit of assigning Yoko Ono song co-authorship status when she made those LSD-induced cat screeches in the background of all of John Lennon’s songs), provide plenty of explicit and subtle humor in their myth-busting expose on the Plymouth settlers, The Times of Their Lives.
Accomplished through a call-and-response formula that embeds the myths, the more accurate revisions, the explanation of the evidence to support the revisions, and then a discussion of the origins of the myths, Deetz deftly fuels the intellectual curiosity of the reader through most of the book. The aforementioned formula is used from the onset as he discusses the fable surrounding thanksgiving. Lambasting the typical pilgrim scenario where a small number of pilgrims and Indians stare piously off into heaven whilst at a picnic table adorned with a big turkey, Deetz illustrates that roughly fifty Englishmen and ninety Indians celebrated sans cranberry sauce, sans pumpkin pie, and most surprisingly, sans turkey. He further illustrates that turkey was baked into the thanksgiving picture by a misreading of William Bradford who indicated, in general, that turkey was hunted in the fall and winter of 1621. And while turkey will become a surprising factor in a later discussion of “pilgrim-virtue”, Deetz illustrates that a first person account of the three day celebration revealed that the settlers dined on deer, and either ducks and geese. Considering the harvest and their typical diet, there may also have been maize, cod, lobster, or eels, and considering the inventory of the Mayflower, the whole fare was most likely washed down by beer...
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