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The Pilgrim Hall Museum Thanksgiving Turkey
is dancing to The Turkey Trot,
written by J. Bodewalt Lamp, published by Jerome H. Remick, New York & Detroit, 1912.

The Turkey Trot is presented with the kind permission of

"Perfessor" Bill's Ragtime Site at www.perfessorbill.com


When's the "Big Day"?  
Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday in November.
In the year 2008, Thanksgiving will be celebrated on November 27.

Click HERE for President George W. Bush's 2007 Thanksgiving Proclamation.  
For the text of EVERY presidential Thanksgiving proclamation ever issued, 
click HERE.
Celebrate with Pilgrim Hall Museum.
From the Thanksgiving of 1621 to the Thanksgiving of today,
learn all about our favorite holiday.

Click HERE for Thanksgiving!
Our newest online Thanksgiving exhibition - 
THE GODMOTHER
OF THANKSGIVING:

the story of an indomitable New England woman, 
Sarah Josepha Hale

Click HERE to learn her story as well as to
discover the amazing series of Thanksgiving editorials 
she wrote for Godey's Lady's Book between 1837 and 1875.

Love Thanksgiving?
Spend it in the town where it all began!
Visit Plymouth's wonderful historical institutions.
Many - including Pilgrim Hall Museum - are open on Thanksgiving Day.
For more information, visit www.visit-Plymouth.com
 

All material on this Website is copyrighted and may not be republished in either print or electronic format without the express written consent of the Pilgrim Society.  
Make a difference!  
Donations to the Pilgrim Society, to support the operations of Pilgrim Hall Museum, 
can be made online through www.networkforgood.org or 
by filling out a Donation Form and mailing it to Pilgrim Hall Museum.

Updated 14 July, 1998