A FASCINATING talk about the Gloucestershire connection to America’s first Thanksgiving is taking place in Wotton this week.

Entitled Hunting for the site of America’s first Thanksgiving (1619), it will be given by Professor Mark Horton, as part of the Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society and Heritage Centre programme of events.

Prof Horton, the society’s president, has been hunting for the site of America’s first Thanksgiving. He led a team of archaeologists in September 2018 to investigate the site of the Berkeley Colony (1619-1622) located on the James River, Virginia, where it is claimed America’s first thanksgiving was celebrated.

Now returned, he has analysed the results, and will be sharing them with the society.

His presidential talk will cover the background to the colony in Gloucestershire, and explain why it has become so important to Americans as the 400th anniversary approaches.

The talk is being held at Wotton under Edge Civic Centre on Friday, February 22 at 7.30pm.

Visitors are welcome. Entrance £5 on the door for non-members.