Did you know?
Though modern Americans might fi nd the notion of a
turkey-free Thanksgiving hard to fathom, the idea of
eating the now popular fowl did not become synonymous
with the holiday until the mid-nineteenth century.
According to History.com, President George Washington
declared a day of national thanksgiving in 1789, but decades
passed before turkey came to be presented as a staple
of Thanksgiving celebrations. History.com notes that
novelist Sarah Joseph Hale offered a lengthy description
of Thanksgiving celebrations in New England in her 1827
novel, Northwood. Hale eventually drew on the writings of
William Bradford, who served as Governor of the Plymouth
Colony from 1621 to 1657. Bradford’s history of the colony
noted the abundance of turkeys around the time of the fi rst
Thanksgiving meal, and Hale ultimately
drew on Bradford’s recollection
and incorporated turkey into
her depictions of Thanksgiving
meals after expending
much energy promoting the
idea of a national Thanksgiving
holiday throughout
the middle decades of the
nineteenth century.
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