The History of Thanksgiving (Encore)
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The History of Thanksgiving
The pilgrims population was devastated by their first year in America, and the Wampanoag tribe had likewise been devastated by a plague. It wasn't the love fest between pilgrims and natives which it's been made out to be. The vast majority of turkeys consumed in the US are consumed around Thanksgiving - although that number has gone down as more people eat turkey slices or ground turkey all year round. Did pilgrims really have giant hats with buckles on them? The answer is no, simply because those hats didn't come into fashion until several decades later. In 1827, a woman by the name of Sarah Josepha Hale wrote a series of editorials trying to persuade the president to declare a
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