Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantati

Veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie sets aside centuries of legend and political stylization to present the mixed blessing that was the first Thanksgiving.

Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration and has now become a national holiday. After their first harvest in 1621, th

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