Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery
Sarah Josepha Hale, 1831, by James Lambdin
Northwood: Life North and South (1852)
Grave of Sarah Josepha Hale in Laurel Hill Cemetery
An 1863 letter from Hale to President Abraham Lincoln discussing Thanksgiving
The myth of the First Thanksgiving is the mythologized retelling of a 1621 harvest feast by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts as the foundation for the modern Thanksgiving holiday as celebrated
The First Thanksgiving 1621, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1899). A fictionalized depiction of the traditional "First Thanksgiving" in which the Wampanoag anachronistically wear Plains tribes' headdresses, the Pilgrims wear contemporary cowboy hats and at least five Pilgrim women are present (only four had survived the previous winter).
A 1924 magazine depiction of a Pilgrim. The buckle hat atop his head, an iconic symbol of the Pilgrims in the myth, never existed as a serious piece of apparel.
"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe