Historical Ideas Thanksgiving

Something very fun to do is 1621 Time Traveling as a community. Just like with other types of reenacting, you spend time with friends throughout the year making costumes together, planning and hosting events, creating props, practicing period languages, and laughing ’til your sides split! Church groups, business groups, school organizations, and homeschool networks all [...]

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Posted December 9, 2009 by Admin under Activities

Something that is really fun and historically authentic to Thanksgiving is the game of Stool-ball. Stool-ball is the predecessor to both baseball and cricket, and it is a great family or community sport for fall. According to primary source document Of Plimoth Plantation, the English played stool-ball in the “street” of Plymouth on Christmas day [...]

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Posted September 9, 2009 by Admin under Activities

European explorers wrote of the bounty and good taste of New England grapes.  There is reason to believe, however, that they weren’t so much prized for making wine, as for making verjuice, a type of sour juice used in cooking (much like lemon juice is used today). Stomping grapes is period authentic, and half the [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Activities

What made for the most fun for our family last year during Thanksgiving, was our feeble efforts at trying to speak archaic, lower class English (slang). We made each other laugh just trying! Really, I have to admit the inspiration came mostly from reading period cookbooks. In that time period they spelled everything by phonics, [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Activities

Our family, ages 10-55, really enjoyed learning (and teaching) the old card game of Mawe last year.  Mawe is reported to have been King James’ favorite card game, while Piquet was Queen Elizabeth’s.  We found Piquet too hard to learn (it was hard enough that everyone lost interest in trying), but Mawe went over with [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Activities

Something that is a little more on the spendy side, but incredibly fun for the family, are target competitions with either authentically re-created long bows and arrows, or reproduction matchlocks. All the historical how-to’s and resources you’ll need for New England Indian long bow making or buying are contained in The American Patriot’s Treasury of [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Activities

See It Here! $9.99 Part of the challenge with living history activities for Thanksgiving is the unfortunate timing of the holiday. The real event took place in September or October when outdoor events were practical. But late November in most parts of the US is not a time to be outdoors. That said, I find [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Activities