This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, November 28th.

Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm Daniel Davis.

A year ago we had the pleasure of speaking to Tracy McKinsey, a professor of history at Wheaton

College and author of the book The First Thanksgiving.

That book is about the real story of the First Thanksgiving that most of us haven't heard about.

Dr. McKinsey is a former professor of mine and remains a friend to this day.

Here's that interview once again.

So Dr. McKinsey, thank you for calling in.

It's my pleasure Daniel. I'm glad to talk with you.

Dr. McKinsey, I think all of us have seen and grown up with those pictures of the pilgrims eating a big nice turkey

Thanksgiving meal sometimes with the Indians at there at Plymouth.

Give us the straight scoop here. Are those pictures accurate? Well I think you know the answer

that Daniel the answer is not very most of our images of that

the event really date to two to two and a half centuries later. So the late 19th century is when most of those images

really begin to crystallize.

If I were going to try to very briefly describe for you what I think the setting would have looked like at the time

It would probably send to you a lot more like maybe a 4th of July barbecue or something like that. It would have been outdoors.

The pilgrims had almost no furniture to speak of in 1621, so we would imagine them sitting on the ground. They're eating with their hands

because they have very few utensils who have been uncommon for them to have really anything

much more than a knife.

It's certainly not a fork, those aren't really in use much among common people at that time.

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