This event’s organizers included Mary Brewster and Susanna White, the latter of whom had a son named Peregrine. Some historians hypothesized that a version of this event occurred 56 years earlier under the direction of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The 19th-century preacher Alexander Young may have coined the name for this event in his edition of Edward Winslow’s account. Since 1970, Cole’s Hill has been the site of an annual commemoration of this event known as the National Day of Mourning. The “myth” of this event was promoted by Sarah Josepha Hale, who campaigned for a holiday based on it tied to accounts featuring Samoset, Tisquantum, and Massasoit. For 10 points, name this 1621 harvest festival probably attended by 50 English settlers and 90 Wampanoags at Plymouth. ■END■
ANSWER: First Thanksgiving [accept answers describing the feast or meal between the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621]
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