What Everyone Should Know About Thanksgiving — History, Origin&Secret Truths with Melanie Kirkpatrick - a podcast by Michael Sandler, Jessica Lee
from 2021-11-19T11:00
If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s more to thanksgiving than turkeys, shopping and football, then do we have the Thanksgiving Show for you!
Today I’ll be talking with Melanie Kirkpatrick, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, and the award-winning author of Escape from North Korea, and her latest Thanksgiving.
That is just what I want to talk with her about today, what’s the true holiday at the heart of the American Experience.
That plus we’ll talk about Franksgiving, Unthanksgiving, Mary had a little lamb, why pumpkin pie’s a myth, why no one landed at Plymouth rock, and why in the world a writer in Hong Kong, might think thanksgiving is Independence Day,
Thanksgiving Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:
- What’s the worst turkey sound ever?
- Why a book on Thanksgiving?
- What happened in Newcomer’s High in Queens?
- What happened in 1621 to the Mayflower expedition?
- Why Plymouth Rock was a myth
- What happened during the first winter?
- What were the gratitude practices of people from the Mayflower?
- What was the first thanksgiving like?
- What was the miracle of Squanto’s life experiences?
- What was the original significance of Thanksgiving
- What’s the history of thanksgiving and Native Americans
- What happened at Alcatraz?
- Who else claimed to have the first thanksgiving dinner?
- What did George Washing do for Thanksgiving?
- Why Lincoln had two Thanksgivings in one year?
- Where did Mary Had a Little Lamb come from?
- Who was the Godmother of Thanksgiving?
- Who was Sarah Josepha Hale?
- How did football and thanksgiving come together?
- What’s Franksgiving and what happened in 1939?
- What’s the connection between Thanksgiving and generosity?
- What’s the history of giving and Washington and Thanksgiving?
- What does over-eating have to do with thanksgiving?
- What pie wasn’t at the first thanksgiving dinner?
- When did Turkey’s get connected with Thanksgiving
- What does succotash have to do with thanksgiving?
- What’s the practice of five kernels of corn?
- Illustrated by Artist Kathryn Messenger on the book :o)
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- https://www.melaniekirkpatrick.com/
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- www.automaticwriting.com
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