Thanksgiving : Child 4a

THANKSGIVING : AFTER THE FEAST!
AROUND THE HEARTH : Singing and story-telling

"It was now the fall of the year, in the month of November, and Winnie and Walter were looking forward with great delight to Thanksgiving. It was the plan this year, that their old grandfather and some of their uncles and aunts and cousins, should come and visit them, and spend Thanksgiving with them…
I shall not stop to tell you much about the day - how the little folks played together, and the old folks went to church - and how much they all enjoyed their nice Thanksgiving dinner. I shall leave all these things, because I wish to hurry along and come to the evening. It was agreed, in order to please the children, that when night was coming on, they should all gather around the bright open fire, in the large sitting-room, and tell stories …"
From : Winnie and Walter; or, story-telling at Thanksgiving
by Increase N. Tarbox. Boston : J.E. Tilton & Co., 1861.

"The thanksgiving table was covered with the usual fare: a turkey, chicken-pies, and roast beef, followed by abundance of pumpkin and squash pies, nuts, and apples; and for drink, good spring water.
After supper, several of the neighboring children called in to see Frank and Mary, and, after a game or two at blind-fold and hunt the slipper, the rest of the evening was delightfully spent in singing from the Juvenile Singing School, the Little Songster, and the Common School Songster."
From : "The Yankee Boy" in The Moral Instructor
by Thomas H.Palmer. Boston : Wm. D. Ticknor, 1842.

	"They had a very pleasant time that evening, sitting by the blazing fire, and talking over their affairs, and cracking nuts, and popping some more corn." From : Mary and Ellen : or, The Best Thanksgiving. Boston : James Munroe & Co., 1854.
"Roasting Chestnuts" from Chatterbox Magazine c1880.