Melanie Kirkpatrick, THANKSGIVING: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Zibby is joined by former Wall Street Journal editor Melanie Kirkpatrick to discuss her book, Thanksgiving. Melanie shares how her research for Thanksgiving led to her most recent work of non-fiction, Lady Editor, about the often-overlooked life story of Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who helped make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Melanie and Zibby also talk about some of Sarah's efforts that are still relevant in our lives today, the surprising role religion played in the history of Thanksgiving, and why it is so important to learn the true history of this holiday. Have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!!!
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| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.1 | Melanie Kirkpatrick is the author of Thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the American |
| 0:46.3 | experience. And again, I hope you are all having an amazing Thanksgiving in 2021 filled with lots |
| 0:52.4 | of joy and fun and football and food and all the good things. |
| 0:56.4 | Melanie is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former deputy editor of the Wall Street |
| 1:01.3 | Journal's editorial page. She is the author of Lady Editor, Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making |
| 1:06.1 | of the Modern American Woman, Thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the American |
| 1:09.8 | experience, and Escape from North Korea, the untold story of Asia's Underground Railroad. She has lived in |
| 1:15.5 | Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Manhattan, and now resides in rural Connecticut. Welcome, Melanie, |
| 1:21.4 | thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss Thanksgiving, |
| 1:25.3 | the holiday at the heart of the American experience from 1621 to |
| 1:28.8 | 2021. It's great to be with you, Zibi, and I love talking about Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. |
| 1:34.9 | Oh, well, I learned so much about Thanksgiving from this book. I mean, there were so many things that I had no |
| 1:40.8 | idea about. For example, and maybe this is embarrassing to admit, I didn't know |
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