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Thanksgiving at Plimoth Plantation
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November 21, 2006
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The archaeology of early colonial settlement in Massachusetts, origins of Thanksgiving, and a seventeenth-century pumpkin recipe.
What was the first Thanksgiving really like (and was it really the first Thanksgiving)? Plimoth Plantation is a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that re-creates the world of the English colonists and native Wampanoag people. At the Plantation's Mayflower II and the 1627 English Village, role-players portray the colonists as they go about daily life in the English colony. At the Wampanoag Homesite, native staff talk about the history and culture of the Wampanoag people. Each Thanksgiving, the museum has more than 3,000 visitors and serves a traditional dinner. ARCHAEOLOGY spoke with Karin Goldstein, Plimoth Plantation's archaeological expert, and Kathleen Curtin, Plimoth's food historian and co-author of the cookbook Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Recipes and History, from Pilgrims to Pumpkin Pie, to learn about the history of Plymouth and Thanksgiving.
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Karin Goldstein, Curator of Original Collections at Plimoth Plantation |
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Kathleen Curtin, Plimoth food historian and co-author of the cookbook Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Recipes and History, from Pilgrims to Pumpkin Pie (Plymouth: Plimoth Plantation, 2005) |
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