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:
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...
LEHI -- Those involved in re-creating the first Thanksgiving feast of 1621 are trying to come up with the answer to the question: What was the first Thanksgiving really like? And, according to spokeswoman Erica Van Amen, they're getting closer every year.
Shirley Waldera likes to think she has a little more appreciation for Thanksgiving than the average American. I think I do, being a descendant" of a man who was at the original Thanksgiving feast in 1621.
It's that time of the year when the chief cooks and bottle washers of the households turn to browse through recipes in anticipation of Thanksgiving dinner. Boy, it's hard to believe that it's here. It always seems to sneak up on us as a big surprise, yet we have been giving thanks on the same Thursday in November for how long? Since 1621? Well, not exactly.The history books tell us that the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving feast in the fall of 1621 to give thanks for the bountiful harvest and for those who survived the first year in the new land. The history books also tell us that Massasoit, chief of the Wampanog tribe, and 90 of his braves were invited guests at the first feast. There is no mention of the Wampanog women. The history books further tell us that Thanksgiving of...
Let us begin by exposing the painful truth: Cranberries were not likely on the menu at the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. But they likely will be on yours, and with good reason.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- What many regard as the nation's first Thanksgiving took place in December 1621 as the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The day did not become a national holiday until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Later, President Franklin Roosevelt clarified that Thanksgiving should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month to encourage earlier holiday shopping, never on the occasional fifth Thursday.
The Pilgrims' 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth wasn't really the first Thanksgiving. They also did not foster good will by inviting American Indians. The menu? Not turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie, but fish, venison and Indian corn.
After doing some research on the very first Thanksgiving feast that was held back in 1621, I have discovered some alarming news. The bird that we will be eating later today should not, in fact, be a turkey. It should be a duck! I know this comes as a shock to those of us who dine on the delicious white meat of a fat tom turkey each year, but if we were holding to the true traditional meal served at Plymouth Rock on what was the first Thanksgiving, we would be gnawing on mallard -- or worse yet, sea duck -- later today.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau released the following "Facts for Features" on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 24): What many regard as the nation's first Thanksgiving took place in December 1621 as the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The day did not become a national holiday until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Later, President Franklin Roosevelt clarified that Thanksgiving should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month to encourage earlier holiday shopping, never on the occasional fifth Thursday.
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