Three Squares a Day

Earlier today we sent out an Antique Thanksgiving Recipe email that included a history mystery:  One of the 1893 recipes shared in the email called for the use of a “tin pudding boiler.”  I had never heard of, and had been unable to determine what the heck a “pudding boiler” was!
(The 1893 Thanksgiving recipes are [...]

Experiencing the charms of an old-world table setting for Thanksgiving is something Americans are about to rediscover, just for the holiday joy of it! With the intent of fostering greater Thanksgiving history appreciation, the time traveling folks at LetsPlayHistory.org are showing America just how easy it really is to pull together a primitive [...]

From the start of the Thanksgiving holiday in 1863, Euro-Americans have romanticized the observance of this historic interracial event of 1621 New England.  For all their noble intentions, however, this holiday suffered censoring and stereotyping as Euro-American Victorians, then the Edwardians, attempted to mold history to the demands of their genteel sensibilities.
Still today, for [...]

Thursday November 6, 2008 – Lebanon, Oregon – America’s newly awakened Angel of Thanksgiving, Carrie Franzwa, is heralding holiday reform, calling on Americans and retailers across the nation to change their holiday tune. Having kept watch over observances past, the Thanksgiving Angel is proclaiming it time to experience the real 1621 event, and to cease [...]

One of the fun ideas offered in The American Patriot’s Treasury of Historical Thanksgiving Dinner Ideas, is playing period English card games for Thanksgiving.  We are finally getting the hang of two old card games, but recently we discovered an interesting way to enhance the historical gaming atmosphere.
After we went to press this season I came across a source for Old-English phrases, [...]