Wednesday, November 26, 2008

In America: Thanksgiving


This week, your Fishbelly is spending less time in the office because it's a holiday. Thanksgiving is one of the undisputed American holidays, in that there is no real War on Thanksgiving, mostly because there are no Turkey Zealots out there to call it that. But there are people who like to keep it real in regards to the holiday, so in honor of this, SCCL is presenting, via the History Channel, the History of Thanksgiving, because what do you really know about the day, except that your relatives can be smug sometimes, and that pilgrims were inherently afraid of these peoples they didn't understand, and that their generational offspring isn't really all that much different. [History]

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