From Deseret News archives:
Thanksgiving myths
• Pilgrims The 102 men, women and children who set out on the Mayflower never knew themselves by this term.
• Thanksgiving The Pilgrims didn't name their first harvest feast, in 1621, though it did last for days.
• Fourth Thursday in November Abraham Lincoln designated this to be the national holiday of Thanksgiving; the first Thanksgiving happened in September or October.
• Turkey About 50 pilgrims and 100 Native Americans ate ducks and geese together; there is no record of turkey being part of the first Thanksgiving.
• Tables The Indians and Pilgrims stood, squatted or sat on the ground around fires. "It was more like Woodstock than the image that has come down to us," Philbrick said.














