{"id":2499,"date":"2017-11-15T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/11\/15\/from-the-storycorps-app-first-thanksgivings\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:56:05","slug":"from-the-storycorps-app-first-thanksgivings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/11\/15\/from-the-storycorps-app-first-thanksgivings\/","title":{"rendered":"From the StoryCorps App: First Thanksgivings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the\u00a0stories\u00a0you hear from us on NPR<\/a>\u00a0and our\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0are excerpts of interviews pulled from the StoryCorps Archive? Participants visit one of our\u00a0recording locations<\/a>\u00a0with a friend or family member to record a 40-minute interview with the help of a trained StoryCorps Facilitator, or record a conversation using the\u00a0StoryCorps App<\/a>. We\u2019re sharing this unedited interview from the StoryCorps Archive with you in its original form.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is one of the biggest holidays celebrated in the United States, but if you grew up in another country, you may not have celebrated, or even heard of, the holiday. Listen as three immigrants share their stories about their first Thanksgivings and the new traditions they\u2019ve created with their families.<\/p>\n

Jayashree Patale<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0emigrated to the United States from India. In her StoryCorps App interview, she tells her granddaughter, Tara, about her first Thanksgiving in America. Jayashree had never heard of the holiday, but she tells Tara about a welcoming neighbor who invited her over for dinner to share in their traditions. \u201cI was a little shy at the time,\u201d she says, \u201cbut everybody made me so comfortable.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jayashree tells the story of being served sliced turkey and not realizing it was meat. She happily finished her meal even though she\u2019s a vegetarian! \u201cI said, uh oh! \u00a0But it\u2019s all right, it doesn\u2019t matter whether I ate meat or not,\u201d she says, \u201cI had a great time, and I really appreciated that people were so loving.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Valerie Cecil<\/strong><\/a>, who grew up in England, tells Joaquin Borja about celebrating Harvest Festival Suppers growing up. \u00a0She never celebrated Thanksgiving, though, until she married her husband, who is from Texas. She talks about the first year they celebrated it together, when they were living in Egypt. \u201cHe invited several of the American families who were on their own there over to our house for Thanksgiving,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I had to learn how to cook pumpkin and pecan pie!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Valerie shares some of the traditions she\u2019s now passed down to her children and describes the five-course meals she prepares every year for the holiday. One round involves a mystery sorbet that her\u00a0guests have to guess the ingredients of.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amanda Lacson asks Mike Alvarez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0what traditions his family started when they came to the United States from the Philippines. \u201cThe first thing that popped into my mind is Thanksgiving,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I think Filipinos, or at least my family, will use any occasion to celebrate and prepare food!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He describes the eclectic dinners his family would have, \u201cSomeone did make a turkey with stuffing \u2014 but it would also be accompanied by traditional Filipino cuisine,\u201d he laughs, \u201cLike pancit, turon, lumpia… \u00a0The turkey would still be at the center of the table, but the perimeter would be Filipino food.”<\/span><\/p>\n

All material within the StoryCorps collection is copyrighted by StoryCorps. StoryCorps encourages use of material on this site by educators and students without prior permission, provided appropriate credit is given. This interview has not been fact-checked, and may contain sensitive personal information about living persons.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Source: SNPR Story Corps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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