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Originally Posted by tucson
Check out Plimoth Plantation 17th Century Harvest Served Dinner. www.plimoth.org |
Darn it. I'm going to miss the pottage of cabbage, etc. ALL SOLD OUT.
Seriously, I've always wanted to take our adult kids, their spouses and all five grandchildren to this Thanksgiving dinner. We are only a 3 hour drive to Boston, but we'd have to overnight at least one night.....and then some would have to fly to us, while others had another three hour ride to us and then 3 to Boston......plus it gets pricey with lodging, breakfasts, etc.......nothing like The Villages restaurant prices.
My husband and I have visited Plimouth Plantation when we stayed a long weekend in Salem, Massachusetts........another "must see" long weekend.
Cute town...or small city.....the witch's dungeons, the play, the cemetery, etc. and the piers, parks, all very nice to see.
At Plimouth Plantation we saw the original type dwelling the pilgrims lived in when they first arrived; quite small, very humble.....to us it would be like a pig's stall......then, each year, they seemed to build larger dwellings......but still had a very very rough existence, to say the least........the little goats were wandering all over, chewing everyone's tags and shoe laces.
For the Pilgrims, that first Thanksgiving must have been wonderful, to share foods brought by the Indians......when starvation could easily come in the winter time.
We all have so much food, in abundance, that the holidays aren't exactly what they used to be.........we can have these foods any old time we wish........ Even our own grandparents had to save up a little here and there for the holiday celebrations......and since it was food they didn't have on a normal day to day basis, it was special. Not any more.
That actually is a very informative website.......I was just looking at some more of the side links, etc.