It was a red the likes of which truly flipped out Americans for the last Thanksgiving of the decade. Just beneath the giddy Fabulous Fifties decade of I Love Lucy, hula hoops, bigger, better Caddies, Elvis and rock & roll… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Thanksgiving’
Mamie, Jackie, Lady Bird & Pat: Thanksgiving & Four First Ladies of the Mid-Century
From Thursday, November 20 until Sunday November 23, 2014, the National First Ladies Library Blog is running a four-part series pegged to the upcoming holiday, “Thanksgiving and Mid-Century Modern First Ladies.” Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Pat… Read More ›
Yes, There was Turkey at the First Thanksgiving
Fiddling is fine for that old standard Turkey in the Straw, but not for that standard old turkey on Thanksgiving. Maybe a need to grab attention is what drives the effort to say what’s always been fact is actually myth,… Read More ›
Feast Beasts: Two Pilgrim Dogs At the First Thanksgiving
We know their breed, but not their names. We know they sailed over on the Mayflower and were part of the first settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation in December of 1620, but we don’t know if they were… Read More ›
Thanks to Presidents Giving Us Turkey Day & Pictures of First Family Thanksgivings
It’s often posited that how a President and his family live in the White House not only reflects contemporary Pop Culture but that news about otherwise mundane details of their choices can often lead the nation’s people towards or away… Read More ›
Sex Lives of the Pilgrims: Girls Gone Wild, Gay Guys, An Orgy, Incest & Goodwives Chasing Native Men
“Puritanism,” said legendary wit H. L. Mencken, “is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Clearly, Mencken never pawed through the court record of Plymouth Colony‘s first generations of Pilgrims. In them, one finds eye-popping details of every… Read More ›
The Four Best Presidential Pumpkin Pies: From the first Adams and Johnson, Ike & Reagan
When it comes to Presidents, the quality of political policy is entirely inconsistent with that of their pumpkin pie. There’s not even a preference for pumpkin over mince, for example, among those regularly rated as either the “best” (like… Read More ›
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