“Anything for Thanksgiving?”: A Time When Thanksgiving Was More Like Halloween

Believe it or not, there was a time in American history when the familiar pastimeĀ of going door to door wearing masks and disguises was an activity associated with Thanksgiving, not Halloween. The tradition seems to date back to the 1870s when poor Americans in the northeastern United States would go from house to house, begging… More “Anything for Thanksgiving?”: A Time When Thanksgiving Was More Like Halloween