Edward Winslow
What about the Pilgrim “thanksgiving?”
At their harvest feast in 1621 the Pilgrims did not know they were starting a holiday. For that matter they did not know they were “Pilgrims.” That label became more common later.
Edward Winslow wrote a brief account of events. After English hunters went “fowling,” for game birds, Massasoit and ninety men joined them for three days of games and feasting. Native hunters contributed five deer. Writing nearly 400 years before the Internet, Winslow’s account did not create a sensation.