Tag: colonial

Colonial Christmas With the Cranes

Post author By Natasha
Post date Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
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Sleepy Hollow is not only my new favorite show of the season but my new favorite show in a long time. The cast is fantastic, the writing is engaging if breathless, the effects are creepy, and the stories are fun, weird, and off the wall. The writers play fast and loose with American history while […]

Tags Christmas, colonial, colonial christmas, holiday, holidays, ichabod crane, revolutionary war, revolutionary war christmas, sleepy hollow, sleepy hollow tv show, tom mison

Food

A Short History of the Cranberry

Post author By Natasha
Post date Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
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I am making cranberry sauce for the first time ever. Because I am a historian, I decided to read up on cranberries. Did they appear at the first Thanksgiving? Is there a reason we eat them as a sauce or (shudder) jelly from a can? Let’s find out!

Tags colonial, cranberry, cranberry history, cranberry sauce, first thanksgiving, food history, history, history of the cranberry, pilgrims, Thanksgiving