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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

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Health & Fitness, Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tonight, we’ll rebroadcast the opening half from “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving”, a short story written by Louisa May Alcott. This story originally aired on November 16th, 2020. The second half will air in our next episode. “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving” is a simple story set in the early 1800s, featuring a country family in New Hampshire. It’s full of idyllic and peaceful descriptions from an earlier time.  — read by V — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:41.7

Tonight, we'll read an old-fashioned Thanksgiving, written by Louisa May Alcott,

1:48.5

after she wrote the Little Women trilogy. It's a simple story, set in the early 1800s,

1:56.6

featuring a country family in New Hampshire. It's full of idyllic and peaceful descriptions from an earlier time.

2:06.8

Alcott was an American writer, raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents.

2:14.4

She grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

2:36.5

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

2:44.1

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

2:49.8

Okay. into the softness of your bed.

3:02.6

Now, take a few deep breaths. 60 years ago, up among the New Hampshire Hills, lived farmer Bassett, with a house full of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him.

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