Striped Bass and the First Thanksgiving

Striped Bass served at the First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was made a nation holiday by George Washington, remembering the early religious immigrants, but it was Lincoln who made it official during the Civil War, thinking the nation had need of a national celebration during that grim war.

Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, Mayflower, he gives what Is assume to be a fairly historically accurate account of the first Thanksgiving.

In in he writes:

 "No one knows the exact date of the first Thanksgiving, but it was probably in late September or early October, soon after the Pilgrims harvested their first crops. There would have been no tables, but perhaps a few chairs and groups gathered around outdoor fires. There were deer, wild turkeys, fish, striped bass, bluefish and cod and there may have been ale, made from the successful barley crop."

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