Places That Celebrated Thanksgiving Before Plymouth Rock

If we all do come together this Thanksgiving like the Pilgrims and Native Americans did in 1621 – let’s hope and pray in the years to follow that we treat each other with a little more respect than the early settlers treated the Native Americans after that first Thanksgiving!

Abraham Lincoln is also a father of Thanksgiving Sarah Josepha Hale’s 19 century campaign for a Thanksgiving holiday culminated in the midst of the Civil War. If they had direct ancestors on the ship, they were allowed to join the cherished Mayflower Society that had membership all over the country.

Squanto, a Patuxet Indian, was at the first Thanksgiving. Out of the 102 who arrived on the Mayflower, 46 of them died during the first few months. The positive thing that happened that fall was that the harvest was a bountiful one.

In 1621, the Pilgrims enjoyed such a successful harvest that they made a decision to have a feast of Thanksgiving.

The Massachusetts settlers nearly certainly didn’t eat turkey or potatoes of any kind.

They should, to a certain degree, take all that as a given. Some go for “gentle” Thanksgivings that don’t involve “murdering” turkeys.

Culinary historians believe that first Thanksgiving included a lot of seafood, as the colony was located near the coast. The supply of flour had been long diminished, so there was no bread or pastries of any kind. And despite all the modern school plays to the contrary, the Pilgrims had no silver buckles on their shoes. The main dish would have consisted of boiled fish, oysters, clams and lobster.

The pilgrims didn’t forget the harmony they shared with the Wampanoag Indians or what they’d learned from them. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity. Nuts also can be ground and used in baked goods or flavoring for Thanksgiving desserts.

But there are even earlier claimants to the first Thanksgiving on the North American continent. Leiden commemorated their victory over the Spanish with an annual feast.

– NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 24, 2016, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Even so, when Roosevelt announced during the Great Depression that henceforth Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November instead of the last, my dad wasn’t the only one upset.

Whether you want to think on the shortcomings of a primitive form of socialism, give thanks for the blessings of your life or simply enjoy time with friends and family, we wish you and yours a cheerful and prosperous Thanksgiving. But what about the actual food we eat?

This is true, but hardly disproves the conservative point that the colonists became more productive when they had private ownership of land and of their own crops-those who didn’t work were suddenly in real danger of starvation. These tireless efforts are yet another example of why O’Fallon is such a great community in which to live.