The Pilgrims in the Netherlands

71 Somerset Street,Somerville NJ 08876

14 November, 2021

Description

For the 400th anniversary of the "First Thanksgiving" explore the Dutch world of the Pilgrims before the Mayflower. Before the Mayflower Author Talk and Book Signing Jennifer Sinsigalli, writing as J.L. Rose, is author of Before the Mayflower, a novel on the sojourn of the Pilgrims in the Netherlands in the years before their fateful voyage across the Atlantic four centuries ago. During informal author talks throughout the afternoon, the author discusses the history that informs her novel and shares her own experiences of field research in the Netherlands and Massachusetts. Making the Sausage in the Seventeenth Century Foodways historian Susan McLellan Plaisted, the Proprietress of Heart to Hearth Cookery, demonstrates sausage making according to the techniques practiced in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century and shares "receipts" from Dutch food history. 400 Years of Thanksgiving Walk through the historic Wallace House to explore the long history of giving thanks in America from traditional thanksgivings of American Indians and public thanksgivings declared by George Washington to the establishment and development of a federal holiday and the four-nation observance of the anniversary by the Wampanoag, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands today. 🍂 #FallforNJ 🌳 #NJStateParks