Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “American history”
Last weekend’s cold snap had us gardeners scurrying to cover tender plants. Saturday’s dip into the mid-30s was the coldest May reading I can recall in the 40 years I’ve lived in Catawba County. Sunday morning I saw 36 on my cellphone weather tab. A friend saw frost on the glass of her car in Newton. I checked the web …
Poor Thanksgiving! Like a middle child, it languishes between two legendary partiers: Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving can scarcely compete. American history teaches us that in 1621 the Plymouth Colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared the first Thanksgiving feast together to celebrate the harvest. Well, actually it was a three-day celebration But don’t tell that to the docents at Berkeley Plantation in …