First Thanksgiving? How We Got the Pilgrim Story All WrongBy Jay Milbrandt, CP Guest Contributor CommentThanksgiving service held at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia in 1619, as depicted by painter Sidney King. | (Photo: Berkeley Plantation / Gary Smith Images)Jay Milbrandt is the author of They Came for Freedom: The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims. He is a professor at Bethel University in Minnesota.