Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year In America - Glenn Alan Cheney

This book is very easy reading, full of interesting Pilgrim facts, and is a very interesting account of their daily trials. Glenn Cheney has poured hours of research into a highly detailed accounting of the entire adventure. Cheney has not left anything out. He has described one detailed scene after another in a way that the reader is drawn from one page to the next. This is not boring reading by any means∦. If you want the entire Pilgrim story, this is the book for you. --Newsletter of the Mayflower Descendants of Michian

If you are looking for a book that engagingly conveys the story of the Pilgrims in a neat well told chronology, Glenn Alan Cheney s Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims First Year in America fits that bill perfectly. Without pretension, Cheney s rendering of this familiar tale easily reveals the saga of a simple but determined, mostly godly people within the context of the unsteady European politics of the times, and the rampant religious intolerance and persecution from which they fled. It s all there, their struggles in Holland, the hair-raising journey by sea in a fetid, reeking ship, and the incredible difficulty they faced, including death, sickness, and misery, as they went about building a life for themselves in a harsh wilderness. Of course all this sacrifice ultimately paid off as this little settlement not only succeeded, but indeed laid the seeds for a new nation. And certainly not over-looked by any means in this account is the critical role played by area native Americans. Cheney presents the Pilgrims in a sometimes breezy narrative that often risks contemplating what might have been in the minds of these humble, sometimes naГЇve souls as they encountered challenges that to this day seem so extraordinary. No matter how often told, however, their story is an incomparable testimony to the truth that common people can do uncommon things, if given a mind to, and if they have the faith. This book belongs in your library beside Nathaniel Philbrick s Mayflower, and of course that venerable classic, George Willison s Saints and Strangers. --The Shallop, New Hampshire Society of Mayflower Descendants

As advertised, the book Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It's about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage....Perhaps after reading this book your Thanksgiving celebration will not be about the bountiful laden table but about the individuals who made it possible. --The Hoosier Mayflower, Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants

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