Newfoundland thanks? A New England Thanksgiving? I say Yankee Thanksgiving Shmanksgiving.
Everyone around the border knows that the real first Thanksgiving on what is now US soil was celebrated in what is now San Elizario, Texas. Texas Almanac tells us a good story.
Some hee to Plymouth and some Canucks tout Newfoundland as the birthplace of the American Long Weekend. Why Canadians are all about this I have no idea, since they spend most of their political lives trying to avoid being the tophat of the USA even while their talent drains, like water down a sink, into the Lower 48. Nevertheless, all may enjoy their debates as they suck down turkey legs and watch jibbling cones of canned cranberries being served.
But let there be no debate that there is some debate around and about the well-set tables of America’s Thanksgiving, besides the traditional Auburn-Alabama football rivalry (which, as a matter of fact, dwarfs all other trivialities about who-came-first and where-they-celebrated, and who-the-hell is Ohio State). HNN throws a few myths like pies into the face of traditionalists. Yeah, they didn’t wear belt-buckles on their hats; we all know that. Who would? Now, this Puritans-like-sex thing, that’s worth a federal grant to research. Ain’t it?
UPDATE: The origins of the holiday, vice the first feast, are provided here. It’s interesting because history should put to rest the irritation in liberal circles over eeevil Pilgrims imposing themselves on Native Americans back in the day; for which the current solution is to ban kids from playing dressup.
