These United States Stories

Professor Pringle learns why Thanksgiving was originally called "the meal before the great die off," the perils of having a blacksmith dig out your tooth with a pair of pliers, and the trauma of alternating crippling constipation with blazing diarrhea as a result of a diet of pork fat and boiled corn mush, when he speaks with a living history reenactor at a re-created Pilgrim village.