After 20+ years of daily cooking – a chore I do not relish – I finally decided in 2007 that I hated the Thanksgiving holiday, and it was time to go on some sort-of a strike! I just had to do something totally different ‘cause the holiday was boring me to tears.

As I had been newly nurturing a long-held love for living history, I decided Thanksgiving would be the perfect opportunity to do a little time travel. Oh, did that ever sound a whole lot more fun to me!

Unfortunately, as my hopes for something more interesting took hold, I quickly discovered that there just weren’t any books or websites out there on how to re-create a historical Thanksgiving at home, just for fun.

I dug for every scrap of information I could find that first year. After experiencing my family’s positive reaction to my efforts in “playing more” for Thanksgiving, I decided to share the idea by compiling a how-to book as a fundraising tool for LetsPlayHistory.org.

That’s how this whole adventure got started.

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Posted September 15, 2009 by Admin under About, Ideas Thanksgiving

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