"Brethren and friends, you are heartily welcome. Eat and be glad, for seldom hath there been such cause and need to keep a Thanksgiving!"
And they all said Amen!
[30] Adapted from "Huckleberries," Houghton, Mifflin Co.
1800 AND FROZE TO DEATH[31]
By C. A. Stephens.
An exciting story of a battle with a crazy moose. It has a Thanksgiving flavour, too.
hat shall we have for Thanksgiving dinner?" was a question which distressed more than one household that year. Indeed, it was often a question what to have for dinner, supper, or breakfast on any day. For that was the strangely unpropitious, unproductive season of 1816, quaintly known in local annals as "1800 and Froze to Death."