by Peggy Robin
How much do you know about Thanksgiving? Think back to what they taught you in elementary school: Pilgrims sitting down for a friendly celebration/feast with the indigenous tribe that helped them make it through that first year. Well, that's the basic outline. Some of what you learned is true, some is myth, and there are a whole lot of things that went into turning that first Thanksgiving feast into a national holiday in November that I'd bet you never would have guessed. Like the identity of the person who spearheaded the campaign to have Thanksgiving celebrated across the nation on the same day every year. That would be Sarah Josepha Hale, the first successful female author/magazine editor in our history.
If you'd like to come to your family's Thanksgiving table armed with a ton of odd trivia about the origins of the holiday, then have I got a podcast for you! It's "The Mother of Thanksgiving" by the Throughline team at NPR:
Have a listen! And then try not to sound like a know-it-all when you tell people what you learned!
Happy Thanksgiving, Listserv Community!
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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
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