Have you wondered how your early American ancestors celebrated Thanksgiving customs, and what foods they feasted upon? Check out these articles and books for some vivid details! (Click the colored links to read the articles.) Reading these articles to your Thanksgiving guests could be a fun activity during the "other" 12-15 hours you're not sitting in front of the traditional feast.
How the English
colonists celebrated thanksgiving in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Thanksgiving in New England--no parties or football
bit.ly/1iPehJa Shine on, harvest moon
http://bit.ly/2TsQPsL
The weed our ancestors ate in tough times
http://bit.ly/2A9r4Vt
Heart-stopping meals of colonial New England: Recipes you can try
bit.ly/skQaJT
How rodents carried out the will of God: the mouse that ate the Book of Common Prayer
http://bit.ly/2fVikdA
How To Make 17th-Century Delights: Whipp'd Syllabub (a frothy cocktail)
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/17th-century-delights-whippd-syllabub
Shedding Light on the First Thanksgiving at Plimoth Plantation
http://bit.ly/2Bl0Jps
The true story behind Thanksgiving is a bloody struggle that decimated the population and ended with a head on a stick
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-thanksgiving-2017-11
The late Carolina Capehart was a historic culinarian. Read her Thanksgiving articles here:
https://firesidefeasts.wordpress.com/?s=Thanksgiving
The late Carolina Capehart was a historic culinarian. Read her Thanksgiving articles here:
https://firesidefeasts.wordpress.com/?s=Thanksgiving
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For a first-hand description of thanksgiving days held in Boston and Salem in the 1630s and 1640s, read it in Mary Dyer Illuminated, by Christy K Robinson. It's Volume I of the two-part story of William and Mary Dyer. The Dyers series, which has won almost unanimous five-star reviews, is available in paperback and Kindle at online booksellers like Amazon.
Be sure to order the series for yourself, and as gifts for friends and family members.
Christy K Robinson is author of
these books:
We
Shall Be Changed (2010)
Mary
Dyer Illuminated Vol. 1 (2013)
Mary
Dyer: For Such a Time as This Vol. 2 (2014)
The
Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport Vol. 3 (2014)
Effigy
Hunter (2015)
And of these sites:
Discovering
Love (inspiration and service)
Rooting
for Ancestors (history and genealogy)
William and Mary Barrett Dyer
(17th century culture and history of England and New England)
Editornado
[ed•i•tohr•NAY•doh] (Words. Communications. Book reviews. Cartoons.)
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