Although the Pilgrims of Plymouth considered it a harvest celebration (not a religious day of thanksgiving), most historians point to their October, 1621 feast as America's First Thanksgiving. What as their celebration really like? How did the Pilgrims ge
Today Plymouth is the site of a living museum recreating the seventeenth century Pilgrim lifestyle.
Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims just seem to go together, but the truth is the Pilgrims never held a feast of thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims were Separatists who broke away from the Church of England to continue the work of the Reformation. One of the English Separatist congregations emigrated to Amsterdam in 1608 to escape religious persecution. The next year they moved to Leiden
