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The first Virginia Christmas found the English adventurers far from home and far from merry. Although it was spring when the three English ships landed in the New World, the men neglected the fundamentals of survival in their rush to find gold and silver, and winter found them—like the grasshopper in Aesop’s fable—cold and starving, dependent upon the generosity of the native Powhatan Indians for their food. To make matters worse, that winter in Jamestown,
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