Thanksgiving 2023 – History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2023 occurs on Thursday, November 23. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days

Chris Newell pens children’s book about the ‘Plimoth Thanksgiving,’ from the Native perspective

By his own admission, Chris Newell is not a writer. The former director of the Abbe Museum wrote a book, so he’s a published author. But the process of writing “If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving,” published last week by Scholastic Press and geared toward kids in first to fourth grades – but appropriate

Thanksgiving 2020 – Tradition, Origins and Meaning

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2020 occurs on Thursday, November 26. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were

The Pilgrims’ Miserable Journey Aboard the Mayflower

During their two-month journey to America, the Mayflower’s passengers faced cramped quarters, rough seas, limited food and numbing cold. Sailing for more than two months across 3,000 miles of open ocean, the 102 passengers of the Mayflower—including three pregnant women and more than a dozen children—were squeezed below decks in crowded, cold and damp conditions,

Who Are the Mayflower Descendants?

Could you be one of the nation’s estimated 35 million Mayflower descendants? Today there are more resources than ever before to help you make the connection. What do Harper Lee, Alec Baldwin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Amelia Earhart have in common? Ancestry. Each of these famous folks had a distant forebear who was a passenger

America’s Oldest Cemetery | Miles Standish Cemetery in Duxbury, MA

Discover the story of the “America’s Oldest Maintained Cemetery,” the Myles Standish Burying Grounds in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where many Mayflower pilgrims are buried. Tucked away, on a quaint, residential street in Duxbury, Massachusetts, sits a small, unassuming, colonial cemetery. Nearly indistinguishable from the hundreds of other early American burial grounds dotting New England, this secluded