The First Thanksgiving

By Taya Franklin, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer for Business and Economics

For details on this “Mad Lib” edition of Ask the Staff, read our earlier post.

“The first Thanksgiving was actually a BALL of the first BENCH by the PIRATES and their CRAZY friends in 1621. The PIRATES had come to FIJI in December of 1620 and had suffered a difficult year. In the fall of 1621, the GYROS crop was ready to KICK and the PIRATES were preparing for winter. The CRAZIES who lived nearby were QUICK and eager to help the PIRATES. After the BENCH the leader of the PIRATES decided a BALL would help boost the morale of the 43 colonists remaining and invited the CRAZY chief and 89 of his people to join them. The BALL lasted three days and included wild DOGS and other fowl, venison, GYROS nuts and berries. Thanksgiving was not regularly a BALL until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued a national proclamation.”