Thanksgiving Classics

Описание: For Thanksgiving, we are revisiting three classic episodes of HUB History. First, learn how the carol “Over the River and Through the Wood” started out as a Thanksgiving song, and why the songwriter’s extreme beliefs almost cost her livelihood. Then, hear how 19th century Boston got the vast flocks of turkeys needed for a traditional Thanksgiving to market, and then to the dining room table. And finally, prepare to be surprised when you hear that college students, even Harvard students and even John Adams’ kids, have been known to drink and cause trouble, such as the 1787 Thanksgiving day riot.




Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/262/



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Over the River and Through the Wood




• Read the original lyrics to “Over the River and Through the Wood (https://archive.org/details/flowersfo...) ” in Flowers for Children


• Barrett’s royalty free (but highly abridged) version (https://archive.org/details/OverTheRi...)


• An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28242) by Lydia Maria Child


• Our show about David Walker’s (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/da...) An Appeal to the Colored People of the World (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/da...) , which influenced Maria’s Appeal


• Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s profile of Lydia Maria Child (https://archive.org/details/eminentwo...)


• The treacly morality piece “The Little White Lamb and the Little Black Lamb (https://archive.org/details/flowersfo...) ” in Flowers for Children


• Our show about Horace Mann (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ho...) , who influenced Maria’s children’s writing


• Maria’s father and his famous Medford Crackers (https://books.google.com/books?id=in-...)


• More on early crackers in New England (http://www.newenglandrecipes.org/html...)


• Read Maria’s turkey and cracker stuffing (https://archive.org/details/americanf...) recipe in The American Frugal Housewife


Boston’s Wild West




• The Brighton Market: Feeding 19th Century Boston (https://www.jstor.org/stable/3742295?...) , David C Smith & Anne E Bridges.


• 1841 report on agriculture (https://books.google.com/books?id=FOQ...) in Massachusetts.


• Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the Brighton market (https://books.google.com/books?id=Ctg...) .


• A description of the Brighton Cattle Fair from a Louisville publication called The Dollar Farmer (https://books.google.com/books?id=YLc...) .


• A description of the Brighton Cattle Fair in an 1846 New England Farmer (https://books.google.com/books?id=VME...) magazine.


• Our header image comes from this 1850 article (http://www.bahistory.org/CattleGleaso...) in Gleason’s Pictorial.


• Turkey drives (https://vprarchive.vpr.net/commentary...) described by Paul Gilbert for VPR.


• Articles by William Marchione on the Brighton stockyards (http://www.bahistory.org/CattleIndust...) , the Cattle Fair Hotel (http://www.bahistory.org/CattlefairHo...) , and the annexation debate (http://www.bahistory.org/HistoryAnnex...) . In that first article, he gathered several additional period sources that we quoted on the stockyard fires, stampedes, and lawsuits.


• For a broader discussion of Boston’s annexations of surrounding towns, check out our Episode 61 (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ep...) .




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