http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/12/storytelling-myth-making-and-what-i-did-for-the-thanksgiving-holiday/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/12/storytelling-myth-making-and-what-i-did-for-the-thanksgiving-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-43858 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:55:02 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=12189#comment-43858 Ditto on the happy days of the 17th Century, but if your son and cousins flee the sight of freshly-killed dinner entrees, you need to search out that uncle who’s so diverting on intellectual subjects after 3 beers and have him take them on a duck hunt, or whatever’s in season. This isn’t meanness; every kid should know how to build a fire or dress his own game birds before deciding on a career as a celebrity chef….

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/12/storytelling-myth-making-and-what-i-did-for-the-thanksgiving-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-43829 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:40:40 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=12189#comment-43829 I just watched the “Saints and Strangers” mini-series on NatGeo. Not being especially well-read on the era, I couldn’t say how accurate it was. But it certainly was one of the darker looks at the era that I’ve ever seen – Squanto was halfway to being Wormtongue, and the slaughters were plentiful.

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