“By the way that’s enough turkey for 38 million turkey sandwiches”
So happy TURKEY DAY and I hope that you all have more things to be thankful for than you have time to express your thanks for it!I HOPE THAT YOU have friends and/or family to spend your day with and all that good stuff.
Today’s quotes are from a Winn Dixie in house magazine.
Pictures are still from Bibury in the Cotswolds and today we’re taking a quick look at the people who brought us the day (or at least that’s what the tradition says)
And yes at the end I will give thanks for our favorite SCOT
52% of hosts for Thanksgiving provide everything–40% have the guest bring a dish and 8% have them bring a drink.
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These steps down to the boat are here in Plymouth, in Devon all part of Jolly ole England. Here is the place our Holiday started…(September 1620) or at least the group of people that would start it all (there were only 120 passengers on this ship that usually just carried cargo). The ship was the Mayflower and the people on it were Puritans (we won’t even get into the whole bit in Holland) . Our history says seeking religious freedom–while I have some serious issues with their idea of freedom I’m gonna be positive about it for the holiday.
Any way this period of time in England saw the country as protestant with a lot of people who defined that in many different ways than the Church of England (and that doesn’t even take into account their opposition–the Catholics) and so there was no end of conflict and in-fighting and so this little group ended up at Plymouth Harbor and headed out to the raw reality of a world with no structure as the settlers knew it. It’s a hard prospect for me to wrap my brain around–kinda like wilderness camping w/o an end date!?
The trip wasn’t karaoke nights and dining with the captain. See the original departure was delayed as when they first left there were problems with the ship and they had to return to port for repairs…so their trip was across the Atlantic in the worst of times….with at least one party (a young sailor) was washed over board in the bad weather and most of the passengers were chronically sea sick.
32% of Americans spend Thanksgiving hosting friends at their homes–30% go to gatherings hosted by friends and family—28% stay home with they live with–4% eat at a restaurant –4% do nothing in particular and 1% do not celebrate the holiday.
So the colonists arrived in time for winter—these guys knew how to settle a new land–and had to live on the Mayflower (which returned to England the next spring) but still only 53 of the original passengers and about half the crew saw the coming of better weather. And the only reason they lived is reportedly the native Americans who helped them do so. They went thru a crash course in settling in a hostile environment and thru the Native’s help learned to grown corn and the like and to hunt the wildlife.
It was at the end of that first summer that the survivors held their first harvest festival…a three day festival of thanksgiving for their survival. Several of our early presidents declared days (multiple per year) of giving thanks, but it was New York State in 1817 that became the first to declare a specific holiday and a date for same. Several more states followed but none were on the same date. It was Abraham Lincoln (in 1863) who made it a national holiday and placed it at the last Thurs of November–something that Roosevelt tried (unsuccessfully) to change during the Depression.
The picture above are of the John Alden house in Duxbury (Alden St), Mass. You remember John Alden don’t you–he arrived on that little ship we just discussed and was one of the leaders of the Plymouth Colony (that eventually was absorbed by the Mass. Colony). After coming to the new world Alden married Pricilla Mullins–the romance (though how fictional we’ll never know–but we all got stuck with it in school) made immortal by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish”. After the marriage (1821) they eventually settle here and he founded the town of Duxbury along with that Miles guy just mentioned and this house was built by John and his (and Pricilla’s) son Jonathan (one of three children born before moving to this area after which seven more were born–10 total with a possible 11th being miscarried) in 1653. So they didn’t do too badly for themselves (much better than a log cabin I’d say). Alden remained in the house till he died in 1687 at age 89 (legend says that Pricilla passed only hours before her husband did).
51% of people said they made more trips to the store than usual in their preparation for the Thanksgiving feast–43% went about the same amount of times as the rest of the year and 8% less often.
And in case you think they were all farmers and hunters think again. Above is the Saugus Iron Works (in Hammersmith), a full scale working replica of the iron works that were founded here by John Winthrop, Jr. in the early 1640s. Winthrop’s father was governor of the Mass. Bay Colony. Because a slump in the Bay Colony’s immigration and fortunes Winthrop returned to England where he obtained capital and a team of workers who could help him set up, as well as train others, in the arts of making iron ware (from tools to hinges, from pots to kettles).
Though the iron works were not a raging success –by the 1650s the costs were overriding in the colony’s soft market–the technicans brought over had trained enough other people that they are considered to be a major influence in establishing iron working in what is the U.S.A. today.
Today the community has been recreated and includes a small museum, the smelting furnace and a “firery” as well as a blacksmith shop, an iron master’s hose and a business center, with everything authentic in showing the iron working process as it started in America.
“There is something really special about a home-cooked meal in general, especially around the holidays.” Curtis Stone, chef
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Be thankful for the new cast member that are coming: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/23/outlander-david-berry-john-grey-acorn-tv
Be thankful for the children: http://www.tvguide.com/news/outlander-season-3-cesar-domboy-fergus-lauren-lyle-marsali/
Thankful for good health and good abs: http://www.foods4betterhealth.com/sam-heughan-workout-ripped-body-caitriona-balfe-impressed-outlander-season-3-20421
AND for those we have lost: http://www.inquisitr.com/3575431/outlander-season-3-news-graham-mctavish-says-sam-heughan-is-a-true-gentleman/
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