Thursday, November 3, 2011

Virtual Thanksgiving field trip

Toss those construction-paper buckled hats, white caps and collars and feathered headdresses. Learn how the Pilgrims and Native Wampanoags really lived via the websites of Plimoth Plantation and Pilgrim Hall Museum, both in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Visit www.plimoth.org for a virtual Thanksgiving field trip Nov. 16. Through the website of this living museum of Pilgrim and Wampanoag history you can learn how to talk, eat and dress like the Pilgrims and Indians. Pilgrim Hall Museum’s website provides historically accurate information about the Pilgrims’ 1621 harvest celebration and the evolution of the American Thanksgiving holiday, which for Native Americans has become a Day of Mourning. Learn more at www.pilgrimhall.org, and say “fare thee well” to all the myths surrounding Thanksgiving.