MIRTH AND FEASTING, 1800

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From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
Date: 20061123
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Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Maine in 1850, with her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at Bowdoin College. In Brunswick, she wrote her famous "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and many stories about New England life, including "The Pearl of Orr's Island" (1862) and "Oldtown Folks" (1869). The latter offers a vivid description of Thanksgiving soon after the Revolutionary War, and is a particularly fitting reminiscence for today.

Are there any of my readers who do not know what Thanksgiving day is to a child? Then let them go back with me, and recall the image of it as we kept it in Oldtown.

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