A new offering for 2010 Thanksgiving Day or week of. Fred Migliore the host and creator of this 19 year old weekly program puts together several music recipes for your listeners! In addition to an exclusive version of 'Alice's Restaurant' sung by Arlo Guthrie, Fred welcomes Graham Nash and Glen Campbell for music and stories.

On this holiday edition of BackStory, the History Guys search for the true roots of Thanksgiving.

Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy who negotiated a truce with British settlers of Plymouth Colony that lasted for 40 years in the 1600's, starting shortly after the first Thanksgiving. This time on Peace Talks Radio, conversation with American Indian scholars and a filmmaker who fill in the details of Massasoit's attempt to make peace for his people and with the new strangers. And

Autumn is harvest time. That means Iowa corn and soybeans; fruit dried in the California sun; greens, beans, and potatoes; slaughtered hogs and beef trucked to market. It also means Thanksgiving turkeys. Harvest follows the families to the grain elevator, the farmers markets and, in a welcome break from work, the State Fair. It's the time of summing up after the long growing season --- the time to decide whether the gamble of early spring planting season has paid off.

Festive, thoughtful and fun, HARVEST HOME is an hour of music hosted by renowned folk duo Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, celebrates Thanksgiving, Autumn and the Harvest Season with a spicy offering of American Roots Music simmered to perfection.

An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the harvest season.

We all say "thank you" a lot. We thank people for holding doors open for us. We thank the person who hands us our morning coffee. We thank the cashier when she hands us our change. And real keeners even send thank you notes to people who've given them a present. But if you were to
keep track of now many times a day you say "thank you," how often would you really mean it? So we ask the question: has thank you lost its meaning?

Cultural anthropologist Margaret Visser about her book The Gift of Thanks.

A shortened version of the 2010 New York Festivals award winning program 'Debts of Gratitude'. It explores the way we say "thank you" in this culture, and why we sometimes don't say it at all.

Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy who negotiated a truce with British settlers of Plymouth Colony that lasted for 40 years in the 1600's, starting shortly after the first Thanksgiving. This time on Peace Talks Radio, conversation with American Indian scholars and a filmmaker who fill in the details of this Massasoit's attempt to make peace for his people and with the new strangers.

In literature, feasts often serve as central events in telling a story.

It's almost heresy - on a day like this one - to question the idea of gratitude. But most of us - if we're honest - have an imperfect relationship with the concept and the practice.

There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federal government doesn’t believe they exist.

Meet the energetic personality behind a small Connecticut dairy farm, take a tour of a corn maze, and find out what it takes to run a successful small dairy farm in the 21st century.

The Trinity Jubilee Center in Lewiston, Maine is located in one of the poorest Neighborhoods in the state. It doubles as a soup kitchen and refugee center.

Does it exist? Does it matter?

Most Thanksgiving dinner tables are where we hear fun family stories, some involving memorable holiday meals of the past. But for graphic designer and writer Jeffery Rudell, one Thanksgiving in particular stands out in his mind. He told this story at a Moth Story Slam, and it has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and on All Things Considered.

A reporter's attempt to buy all of the ingredients in his Thanksgiving meal from sources within 100 miles, right down to the salt.

"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that everybody loved. To this day my favorite meal is pinto beans, corn bread and buttermilk."

Pour a tall glass of buttermilk and come with us to the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. This short, non-narrated postcard is a whirlwind sonic celebration of Southern food and culture.

Cancer survivor and NY Times bestselling author Susan Chernak McElroy recounts two related tales of giving thanks -- one from her cancer recovery, and the other a story from her book "Animals as Teachers and Healers," about a woman, changing circumstances, and her beloved cat Sammy.

Talking turkey about the birds and the bees.

From the Poetry Foundation: After packing her youngest on an airplane back to college, a mother compares the end of autumn to her own season in life. The reader is Anne O'Sullivan.

Jose Fernandez tells his wife, Teresita, about the first Thanksgiving he spent in the United States.