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If you want to prepare for Thanksgiving like a real Pilgrim this year, here's what you should do: Cancel the plane reservations. Stop jotting down recipes. Leave the libations alone. For the Pilgrims and Puritans, "thanksgiving" days were spontaneous and sober affairs.
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While the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts are credited with holding America's first Thanksgiving celebration back in 1621, the person most responsible for having Thanksgiving decreed a national holiday was a journalist. Well, a food writer and editor, at least.
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Going native Political correctness has wrung Thanksgiving as dry as an overcooked turkey these days, particularly at the Plimoth Plantation, site of the original 1621 Thanksgiving feast between Pilgrims and the local population of Wampanoag Indians - whoops, egad, oh, my gosh, sorry - Native Americans. The plantation's official visitor guide to "respecting cultural boundaries" reads like a legal brief:
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You think it's tough making a Thanksgiving dinner, from bird to biscuits? Try making the original Thanksgiving dinner, prepared in 1621 by the Pilgrims to celebrate their first disease-ridden, disaster- plagued year at Plymouth Colony.
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Every American is familiar with the traditional Thanksgiving roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and of course pumpkin pie etc. As they ate these classic dishes year after year, they had a sense of continuing a tradition that began with the "Pilgrims and Indians." But are these really the foods the English colonists and native Wampanoag ate together during the harvest celebration in 1621, the event that has come to be known as "The First Thanksgiving"? In 1621, when Elizabeth Hopkins prepared the first Thanksgiving feast, she had no idea that the celebrations would become a national holiday. Hopkins was a Pilgrim settler who came to America on the Mayflower. Only 140 people, approximately 90 Indians and 50 Pilgrims gathered to celebrate what would later become kn...
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Who in the world would argue on Thanksgiving, a holiday designed for expressing gratitude? Why, Americans, of course! Arguing is what we do 24/7, with no break for holidays. So, let us begin. * The first Thanksgiving was in 1621, when English colonists and the Wampanoag Tribe gathered to celebrate dual blessings: They were still alive and a good harvest had been gathered. This story not only carries a lot of clout along Pilgrims Highway in Plymouth, Mass., lo, these 390 years later, its also conventional wisdom. Taught in every elementary school. Totally inarguable, right?
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Autumn harvest festivals were and are common across Europe, and, as every American schoolchild once learned, our modern Thanksgiving celebrations descend from a meal shared between Massachusetts Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621. It was not until Oct. 3, 1863, however, that a uniform national holiday was established by presidential proclamation. Writing well into the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared: "The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensibl...
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That's the 21 st-century holidays - if you're not hosting a big meal for the in-laws one week you're the main course on the neighborhood"progressivedinner"the next. True, Joseph didn't make a reservation; true there was a Pharisee convention in town and all rooms were booked. And you can talk until you're blue in the face about how the Bethlehem fire marshal puts limits on room capacity fora good reason. But sheesh,turning away Jesus, Mary and Joseph on Christmas Eve... and it's a biting chill this time of year in Judea. Due to its secular nature and guiltfree emphasis on consuming massive amounts of grayish-brown gravy, Thanksgiving has become the holiday of choice for many Americans over the age of 1 2 (not to mention the Dutch, Liberians, Filipinos and Norfolk Islanders who also cele...
...).Of course,the first Thanksgiving, circa 1621 near Plymouth Bay, isn't easily analogous to moder...
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We all know the story: The Pilgrims landed at what would become their settlement of Plymouth. After a hard winter where half the colony died, the Native Americans, the Wampanoags, helped Pilgrims who survived learn how to plant com, squash and other vegetables to survive. After the harvest, both the Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated the first harvest together in 1621. This is considered the first "thanksgiving." Actually, it was not the first thanksgiving. In 1565, the first "thanksgiving" was held in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. In that year, Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed in Florida along with almost 1 ,000 soldiers, sailors and colonists. They met the Timucuan Native Americans, and together they held a great Christian Mass "thanksgiving" in celebration ...
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I don't hang on the streets. I don't sell drugs. But I can't even find a job because of the way I look and the way I wear my hair and basic stereotypes," said 21-year-old Erick Dickerson, among the protesters in the recent march on the U.S. Department of Justice and the "Enough is Enough Stop Hate Crimes and Police Brutality" rally held the next day at the Washington Monument. "It's crazy that it's harder to do the right thing than to do the wrong thing," said Dickerson. "I give thanks for my two kids," he says of his 2-year-old daughter and his son who is almost one. "I'm just glad to have my kids. It'll get better," he said. "When I sit down, I'll be standing up for the Native Americans," said Obi Egbuna, program coordinator for the Pan-African Liberation organization. Recalling that...
...-pause to count their blessings at Thanksgiving. "I don't hang on the streets. I don't sell drugs.... that the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621 during the slaughter of Native-Americans and the e...
