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Logos
10-09-2006, 08:51 AM
It is Thanksgiving Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving) in Canada, and next month in the United States, so I thought I would compile a list of stories from the site with this theme. Feel free to add to it even if they're not on the site! :)

Edward Payson Roe: Three Thanksgiving Kisses
http://www.online-literature.com/edward-roe/1967/

Emily Dickinson: Thanksgiving Day
http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/poems-series-3/56/

Horatio Alger: Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving
http://www.online-literature.com/horatio-alger/2828

Nathaniel Hawthorne: John Inglefield's Thanksgiving
http://www.online-literature.com/horatio-alger/2830

Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
http://www.online-literature.com/twain/2834

O Henry: Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
http://www.online-literature.com/horatio-alger/2831

Eleanor H. Porter: Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving
http://www.online-literature.com/horatio-alger/2832

Not on site but here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10222/10222-8.txt
J. B. Webb: The Pilgrims of New England: A Tale of the Early American Settlers

"In the following story, an attempt has been made to illustrate the
manners and habits of the earliest Puritan settlers in New England, and
the trials and difficulties to which they were subjected during the
first years of their residence in their adopted country."

Pensive
10-09-2006, 08:57 AM
Thanks Logos. :D

This is really nice of you.

Logos
11-22-2006, 10:01 AM
I had started this around Canada's Thanksgiving Day, and now that the United States' Thanksgiving Day is coming up on 23 November, I'm bumping it :)

Anybody else know of any stories, poetry etc. ?

Goodfella
11-22-2006, 10:23 AM
I had started this around Canada's Thanksgiving Day, and now that the United States' Thanksgiving Day is coming up on 23 November, I'm bumping it :)

Anybody else know of any stories, poetry etc. ?

Thanks Logos.
You are very industreous.