The Lockhart: Perverting the Thanksgiving tradition

Southerners in the US came late to the Thanksgiving table. Having started as a ‘Yankee’ holiday, the day of thanks and attendant big meal enjoyed on the last Thursday of November steadily crept its way from the East Coast where British settlers first landed in the 1600s, and into the traditions of other far-flung colonies. This was especially the case after the campaigning efforts of New Hampshire-born writer and e...