A Thanksgiving Day Poem by the Editor

Thanksgiving:  The Real Story

Steven Wittenberg Gordon

The year was 1621 and the Pilgrims were

thankful to be alive, shooting their guns

and causing quite a stir in the wilderness

that was near the Colony on the Bay

that the Wampanoags fearing for their

friends came en mass a hundred strong

ready to fight alongside their pale cousins

but instead came upon them feasting

and making merry, shooting in celebration

of the bounty of the harvest and the land.

And so the Pilgrims upon seeing their red

comrades invited them to join the fun

and as there was not enough to feed the

extra hundred the Wampanoag Chief

dispatched some of his folk into the woods

and to the shore and they returned in

short order with venison, eels, and lobsters

by the score.  And so the two nations--

the one established and the other soon

to spread--feasted together in celebration

of family, friendship, fellowship, and food.

ref:  http://thegentsblog.com/lifestyle/food/thanksgiving-facts-vs-fiction/