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As often happens with history, stories are softened, lightened and enhanced into legends. That is exactly what happened with the Pilgrim’s first feast of thanksgiving.

First off, the Thanksgiving holiday did not begin with the Pilgrims. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November, looking to reconcile a country in the middle of the Civil War. One hundred years later, President John F. Kennedy immortalized the Pilgrims in his own Thanksgiving Day proclamation, thus officially bringing them to our family tables.

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