Graham Woodlief and Barbara Ramos will tell the story of this first Thanksgiving in English-speaking America and of the origins of the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival, which led to President Kennedy's mention of Virginia in his Thanksgiving proclamation of 1963. Beginning in 1958, the Virginia First Thanksgiving Festival commemorated this directive as the first English Thanksgiving in North America with an annual reenactment at Berkeley Plantation. Erected 2012 by Department of Historic Resources. When Massachusetts-born President John F. Kennedy issued a Thanksgiving proclamation in 1962 touting the Pilgrim’s establishment of the holiday, a Virginia senator complained. Contrary to popular belief, the first American Thanksgiving was in Virginia – not Plymouth, Massachusetts. On December 4, 1619, after ten weeks at sea, thirty-eight English settlers arrived at Berkeley Hundred, about 20 miles upstream from Jamestowne. The first Thanksgiving has always been credited to the pilgrims at Plimouth Rock in Massachusetts. But the first recorded Thanksgiving actually occurred three years earlier 600 miles south in Virginia. RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)–Some historians argue the first Thanksgiving was actually in Virginia—not Massachusetts. More than four hundred years later, a descendent of the man who marked the occasion... Now, let’s argue the fact ... When Was the First Thanksgiving? It’s a simple story. The Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower searching for religious freedom. The Native people they encountered welcomed them and helped them survive. To celebrate their friendship, they sat down together to a Thanksgiving feast. This is the traditional tale of the First Thanksgiving. The Virginia Company of London pulled the plug on their expedition, and their instructions to celebrate a day of thanks were lost. In 1931, Dr. Lyon Tyler, son of former President John Tyler and former president of the College of William & Mary, published an article on the celebration at Berkeley Hundred in the Richmond News-Leader.
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