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Iwant2kssuallovr
61 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Turkey Day..... Thanksgiving 2017
THANKSGIVING
The first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621. More than 200 years later, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving.
Congress finally made Thanksgiving Day an official national holiday in 1941. Each year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans gather for a day of feasting, football, and family.
While today’s Thanksgiving celebrations would likely be unrecognizable to attendees of the original 1621 harvest meal, it continues to be a day for Americans to come together around the table—albeit with some updates to pilgrim’s menu.
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| November 21, 2017, 10:54 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
61 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Turkey Day..... Thanksgiving 2017
The history of the holiday meal tells us that turkey was always the centerpiece, but other courses have since disappeared
If one were to create a historically accurate feast, consisting of only those foods that historians are certain were served at the so-called “first Thanksgiving,” there would be slimmer pickings. “Wildfowl was there. Corn, in grain form for bread or for porridge, was there and Venison.
Harvest celebration shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Edward Winslow, an English leader who attended, wrote home to a friend:
“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others.”
William Bradford, the governor Winslow mentions, also described the autumn of 1621, adding, “And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck a meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion.”
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| November 21, 2017, 10:59 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Turkey Day..... Thanksgiving 2017
well we got another one again in a few . the easy bake oven is going again lol.
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