With a sparkle in her eye, Carrie the Thanksgiving Angel insists that very few Americans actually dress up and sit down to a perfectly appointed formal table. “It’s a boring notion,” says The Angel. “It’s also historically inaccurate, and very unobtainable for the average family that does not have a big home and a Team Martha to serve.”
The Angel tells her own wistful story. “I finally died of Thanksgiving boredom in 2006, after twenty-plus years of grinning and bearing it. In 2007 I arose with history in my wings, and decided to take my family on a time travel adventure instead. It was so much more fun, I knew this would be our holiday hobby for keeps.”
Now Carrie, The Angel of Thanksgiving, is calling all Angels – her fellow Americans – to join her in the new time travel alternative, and is offering fr*ee help online.
“I can’t wait for more families to experience the sights, sounds, culture and charms of re-creating 1621 life for Thanksgiving,” says The Angel. “They’ll get to experience things like the stirring music of the Wampanoag people; the vision of a table set in old-English style; the fun of period sports and table games; the recounting of Squanto’s journey to Europe as a slave; and the ever-present reality of the Barbary Pirates. All these things are part of revisiting early Plymouth.”
The Thanksgiving Angel has posted a fr*ee heavenly how-to article, 7 Quick-Tips for Thanksgiving Time Travel, which will get American families up and started in short order. The article is available at www.letsplayhistory.org/3squaresaday/carries-chat/7-tips-tg/ . Carrie is also working to make her new 1621 living-history how-to book, The American Patriot’s Treasury of Thanksgiving Dinner Ideas, permanently available in its entirety online through Books.Google.com, ISBN 1-4392-0586-8. The book is also available in digital format with lifetime updates for $7.95 through LetsPlayHistory.org, or in paperback format for $19.95 through Amazon.com.
Hark! The Angel of Thanksgiving sings, “Glory to Time Travel Wings!”
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