Exploring History: The Mayflower, Wampanoags, and the Origins of Thanksgiving

Something More with Chris Boyd · Nov 20, 2023 · 26m

As Thanksgiving draws closer, Chris Boyd and Jeff Perry welcome Kevin Doyle and Karen Rinaldo to the show. Kevin and Karen are the co-authors of "In the Wake of the Mayflower" which is the story about life after the Mayflower arrival from "The First Encounter" through the fifty years of peace that followed, and ending with King Philip's War. The book also highlights the mutually dependent relationship between the Pilgrims and the indigenous Wampanoags that is documented in the painting by Rinaldo of The First Thanksgiving, 1621. In this episode the group furthers the conversation by talking…