… How so? This can be explained in a letter written and sent to friend in England by aforementioned Mayflower passenger and feast attendee “E.W.” (Edward Winslow) who wrote: “And God be praised, we had a good increase…Our harvest being gotten in, our governor (William Bradford) sent four men on fowling that so we might after a special manner rejoice together…” and that, “These things I thought good to let you understand…that you might on our behalf give God thanks who hath dealt so favourably with us.”

This letter alone explains the reality and truths of the first Thanksgiving as it being but a simple harvest feast and the welcoming of peace between two peoples, which a later day poem and politics helped to morph into what has become a truly American holiday…

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