The holiday season is upon us and you would be hard-pressed to find a pirate anywhere that loves to celebrate the holidays as much as Pirate Captain Jeff!!! In the true pirate tradition, Captain Jeff loves to party and party HARD!!!! And there's nothing like a pirate party to get yer jibs jibbing, yer jabs jabbing and yer nibs nibbling.
So he is throwing a big Thanksgiving Buffet down at Jeff's Pirates Cove on the 28th. Here is the menu....
As you can see, Captain Jeff is serving quite a table full of his favorite Thanksgiving goodies in order to please you. But the Captain is not satisfied with that. He also wants you to get into the true spirit of Thanksgiving. And no better way to do that than to know what Thanksgiving is all about. It's more than just "talking turkey"!!!
Here is what it says...
"In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River.
One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing a village at Plymouth.Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition.
Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.
In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. While no record exists of the historic banquet’s exact menu, the Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow wrote in his journal that Governor Bradford sent four men on a “fowling” mission in preparation for the event, and that the Wampanoag guests arrived bearing five deer. Historians have suggested that many of the dishes were likely prepared using traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Because the Pilgrims had no oven and the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled by the fall of 1621, the meal did not feature pies, cakes or other desserts, which have become a hallmark of contemporary celebrations."
So if you want to celebrate this year's Thanksgiving the pirate way with Pirate Captain Jeff and the rest of his hoards, come on down to Jeff's Pirates Cove located in the beautiful southern village of Ipan Talofofo and eat, drink and party like a pirate. If you are too full to move afterwards, don't worry!!! You can lay out on the beach with the rest of all the other overindulged souls. No one will bother you!! Hehehehehehe!!!
Hurry now....
So if you want to celebrate this year's Thanksgiving the pirate way with Pirate Captain Jeff and the rest of his hoards, come on down to Jeff's Pirates Cove located in the beautiful southern village of Ipan Talofofo and eat, drink and party like a pirate. If you are too full to move afterwards, don't worry!!! You can lay out on the beach with the rest of all the other overindulged souls. No one will bother you!! Hehehehehehe!!!
Hurry now....
The Pirate Awaits You....
