Florida Home to the first Thanksgiving

By Starr Munro: Riverbend News The story of the first Thanksgiving has been taught to school children every year since the time of small school houses. It's common knowledge that the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1621. And we're taught that after a very hard first winter that resulted in many lost lives, the Protestants held a feast of thanksgiving with the local Native American tribe, the Wampanogs. This account is not wrong but in 1923 a Florida historian named Jeannette Thurber Connor translated an account from a Spanish physician by the name of Gonzalo Meras that came to Florida aboard the ship San Pelayo. An account dating back to 1565 ha