| Chicken with stuffing that we had for Thanksgiving a few years ago. Chicken will be on our menu again this year. |
Thanksgiving is this week. Some cooking has already begun in my kitchen. Here are some images to get in the mood for the holiday.
| An imagined picture of the first Thanksgiving from 1912. (source) It has some reliable details, but of course the story is mainly a myth, one that we all love. |
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| Doris Lee, "Thanksgiving" (1935) There’s an element of myth here, too! |
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| From “How to Make a Turkey Laugh: Funny Thanksgiving Jokes for Kids” (link) |
| From “Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story” (link) |
Grant Wood: Detail of a farmhouse kitchen from “Dinner for Threshers.” 1934.
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| A Grandma Moses Thanksgiving. (Source) Grandma Moses is one of our chief mythmakers! |
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