Myth: The Pilgrims and Wampanoags came together in November 1621 for a Thanksgiving feast. There’s a lot to unpack with this one, and not just because it forms the basis of our country’s ...

Americans are told the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, when the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, invited the Wampanoag to a harvest feast.

My wife, Carla, still does the cooking for our family. She plans the meal, prepares it with expert and caring hands, sets the tables, and organizes the day. My one job is to write a Thanksgiving ...

Most Americans believe that the Thanksgiving holiday originated with New England’s Pilgrims in the early autumn of 1621 when they invited the Wampanoag Indians to a feast to celebrate their f… ...

History tells us that in the fall of 1621 the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, after a very difficult first year in the New World, gathered to celebrate with the Indigenous peoples of the area.

I’m with Lincoln that Thanksgiving’s purpose should be two-fold: to recognize and be grateful that we have more than we need, and to share what we have for peace, tranquility, and unity.

Many believe our national Thanksgiving holiday was inspired by the Pilgrims and Native Americans’ feast in 1621 celebrating their first harvest. ... Lincoln spoke of unity in prayer, ...

That first American Thanksgiving in 1621 was probably in late September or early October, to reflect on surviving their first winter. Some of the older traditions reasserted themselves at the ...

Wheat Rolls. The Pilgrims had no wheat flour for baking traditional bread rolls in 1621. Instead, the first Thanksgiving featured Wampanoag corn bread.

By now, we know that the long-mythologized first Thanksgiving dinner, thought to have been celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621, is mostly the stuff of legend — and not exactly like that pageant ...

From the landing on Plymouth Rock to the harmonious feast with the native Wampanoags, the story about the Pilgrims — and by extension, the story of Thanksgiving — is rife with myth and inaccuracy.