Randell Jones
Daniel Boone Footsteps
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6-minute Stories

Everybody loves a good story
Listen to these 6-minute stories
from both new voices and experienced writers
from the Personal Story Publishing Project anthologies:
Bearing Up , Exploring , That Southern Thing , Luck & Opportunity,
Trouble , Curious Stuff , Twists and Turns , Sooner or Later , and Now or Never.
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"The Other Thanksgiving Story" by Randell Jones - reprise from 2020

The Pilgrims were two years too late to be first.

Americans chose an origin story for Thanksgiving involving eating over praying.

In keeping with the theme of this current American holiday, podcast host Randell Jones shares in this bonus episode the story of how the first day of thanksgiving by English-speaking settlers happened in Virginia two years before the Pilgrims had their celebrated day. This episode appeared three years ago on Nov. 25, 2020. “6minute Stories podcast wishes you and yours a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

 

Randell Jones is an award-winning history writer about the pioneer and Revolutionary War eras. Since 2007, he has served as an invited member of the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council. He created the Personal Story Publishing Project and the companion podcast, “6-minute Stories” to encourage writers. In 2020, he launched BecomingAmerica250.com to promote history appreciation during the coming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, writing, speaking, and publishing as Daniel Boone Footsteps.

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