Uncle Jed, Granny, Ellie, me, Mr. Drysdale, Mrs. Drysdale, Miss Jane.

You see, Mr. and Mrs. Drysdale are posing as Governor and Mrs. Bradford in a recreation of the first Thanksgiving some 342 years ago, when the old Gonquins, Quanto and Massasoit befriended the beleaguered Pilgrims and so made it possible to perpetuate the Plymouth Colony and bring them to be what is now one of the most important holidays in the American calendar.