#pilgrims

[floridaboiler]

The Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth November 11, 1620 vs. The Mayflower passengers who survived to Thanksgiving 1621, less than one year later.

[tomorrowusa]

Boat people, go home!

If you have to spend Thanksgiving with some MAGA relative, bring your laptop and make that cartoon the temporary screen picture. 🤭

[illustratus]

Isolation: The Mayflower becalmed on a moonlit night by Montague Dawson

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Heinz Oven Baked Beans (1937)

[thegoodmorningman]

Give Thanks that *our* Sun has always been Golden and bedecked with Spikes! Good Morning! Unleash your Gratitude upon the world today!!!

[dabiconcordia]

The Pilgrims Came

The Pilgrims came across the sea, And never thought of you and me; And yet it's very strange the way We think of them Thanksgiving Day.

We tell their story old and true Of how they sailed across the blue, And found a new land to be free And built their homes quite near the sea.

Every child knows well the tale Of how they bravely turned the sail, And journeyed many a day and night, To worship God as they thought right.

The people think that they were sad, And grave; I'm sure that they were glad— They made Thanksgiving Day—that's fun— We thank the Pilgrims, every one! by Annette Wynne

[sammie-dae]

i love trench crusade

[gadawg-404]

Thanksgiving Is Loading

[d-aniplex]

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, September 16 in 1620, English Pilgrims set sail for the English settlement in Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower. Because of the strong winter seas, however, they never made it that far, and instead made landing at a spot they named after their departure point, Plymouth, in late December -- not the best time to set up shop in New England. They were ill-prepared to fend for themselves, and if it wasn't for the assistance of the indigenous people of the area, the colonists never would have survived.

We commemorate this milestone with a children's book from our Historical Curriculum Collection, We Were There with the Mayflower Pilgrims by Robert N. Webb, illustrations by Charles J. Andres (1913-2008), and historical consultation by George F. Willison (1896-1972), published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1956. While there are many historical accuracies in this book, its rhetoric reflects the Euro-American centrism and ideas of American exceptionalism normalized during the period: "America was a wilderness, filled with savage Indians"; "[The Mayflower Compact was] the first of many important and historical documents which were to guide America to its greatness." And as one might imagine, the relationship between the English settlers and the indigenous population is predictably whitewashed.

View more posts on works from our Historical Curriculum Collection.

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[illustratus]

The Canterbury Pilgrims by Paul Hardy

[postcard-from-the-past]

Muslim pilgrims in Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey

Ottoman vintage postcard

[jkrikis]

camino frances

© 2023  Yiannis Krikis

[misforgotten2]

… thinking of white granulated sugar was something the pilgrims never had.

Parents Magazine - 1953

[stone-cold-groove]

Pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving Day, anyone?