I know that most of us have heard about the first Thanksgiving in elementary school, but how much do you really know? Did you know that it didn't become a national holiday till the late 1800's? Probably not, so visit the History Channel web site and watch the video clip about this hungry holiday and learn more.
http://www.history.com/content/thanksgiving
Its interesting to find out about your ancestry and I must say that I haven't done a great deal of research on my own. But what I do know came from bedtime stories I was told at a very young age. I heard from my father stories about my great uncles in WWII and their travels on African safaris. I heard about my grandfather who was a principal of my father's elementary school. But there was one story that always seemed to catch my interest more than all the others and that was the one about my father's namesake, Lewis Wetzel. My father would tell me of the time he was captured as a boy by Native Americans and how he escaped. In my adult years I revisted this story and found that Lewis Wetzel was a person who made vengence his life. I can't say that I am proud to be his relative but I will say that I am fascinated by his story. Read it yourself as I have put a link to a good site about his life.
