Tablescapes, Seaside Thanksgiving

Welcome to the Thanksgiving Tablescape Blog Hop!

A collection of tables by talented tablescapers to inspire and delight!

Our family tradition for decades has been gathering with HH’s sister and her family

There are 24 of us now, total chaos and fun!  As the children have grown and married, things have gotten complicated…

Now we all gather every other year…and this is the non gather year…

 

 

Just our little family of 9, and we are a house divided..

My son and his boys want to go to the beach, but my daughter and her family need to stay in the city

So this mother’s heart is torn…

 

 

Where should we be, in the city or by the sea?

 

 

Did you know that the Pilgrims and Indians ate a lot of different fish for the first Thanksgiving?

 

 

Maybe this table isn’t so non traditional after all!

 

 

Here’s another fun fact, Sarah Josepha Hale, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” campaigned for 20 years

to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, and finally in 1863, she convinced President Lincoln to do so,

to help bring the country together after the Civil War

 

 

She is also credited for making cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie

part of our traditional foods, while the original meal consisted of  fish, wild fowl, deer, and flint corn,

known as Indian corn

source

 

 

Indian corn has a very low water content which protects it from harsh New England freezing temperatures,

one of the only vegetables they were able to grow in those times.  It is called flint corn because it’s so hard.

Today the main uses of Indian corn are for hominy and ornamental corn for decoration

 

 

Food was eaten with only spoons, fingers and knives

 

 

More alcohol is consumed on Thanksgiving than any other holiday 🍾

 

 

Be sure to provide plenty of glasses and coffee cups!

 

 

So, what do you think,

 

 

Non-traditional…

 

 

Or traditional

 

 

 

Coastal Style

 

 

Or city style

 

 

It really doesn’t matter where you’re gathered

And often times family members must be scattered

What matters most is what you roast

Be it deer, fish, fowl, in the city or on the coast!

 

Please visit all these fabulous Thanksgiving tables this week!

we are all so thankful to Chloe of Celebrate and Decorate for being our fearless leader!