![]() ![]() Like many Americans, I grew up taking this myth of national origins with a grain of salt. From this inspiring inception came the United States. Wefve all heard at least some version of the story: how in 1620 the Pilgrims sailed to the New World in search of religious freedom how after drawing up the Mayflower Compact, they landed at Plymouth Rock and befriended the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to plant corn and whose leader or sachem, Massasoit, helped them celebrate the First Thanksgiving. Take, for example, the event that most Americans associate with the start of the United States: the voyage of the Mayflower. Perhaps then, we tell ourselves, we can start to make sense of the convoluted mess we are in today.īut beginnings are rarely as clear-cut as we would like them to be. ![]() From the Big Bang to the Garden of Eden to the circumstances of our own births, we yearn to travel back to that distant time when everything was new and full of promise. ![]() We all want to know how it was in the beginning. ![]()
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