A Story About America, Episode 7 – The First Thanksgiving

One day, Frederick Trashcan and his little brother Carl Trashcan were visiting in Cape Cod, when they saw a statue of a Pilgrim meeting a Native American. There was a sign that read, “This is the site of the first Thanksgiving.” Carl had secretly taken a small plastic bottle of his brother’s Living Juice and also $20.00 from his mother’s purse. Carl had already spent the entire $20.00 on five boxes of 10 piece of McDonald’s Chicken nuggets and a 48-ounce cup of regular Pepsi for lunch, which he was not going to share with anyone.  But it was only 9:00 a.m. and lunch was a long way off.  It was becoming hard for Carl to carry all of those boxes plus the 48-ounce cup of Pepsi, and the small bottle of living juice. He had to set some of it down, so he put the living juice next to the statue. BIG MISTAKE!

Some of the living juice spilled on the statue. “Where am I?” said the Pilgrim and the Native American said, “I have no idea! We were just on our way to dinner!”

They both said at the same time, “I am Hungry, when is Thanksgiving Dinner?” The Pilgrim said, “I hope we are having chicken tonight, I am getting really tired of Turkey.” The Native American saw the boxes of Chicken Nuggets and said, “So maybe we are having chicken instead of Turkey.” Carl started to say, “No, those nuggets are mine,” but he saw the Native American’s spear and decided to run away to save his chicken nuggets. BAD DECISION! Because he missed the First Thanksgiving Dinner.

The Native American and the Pilgrim invited Frederick to their special dinner. The Pilgrim explained that the Native Americans had helped them with food for the last year, but they had a good harvest that fall with corn, squash, potatoes, and meat from the Hamburger Tree (Just Kidding). The Pilgrim said. “We do have fish, venison, eels, chicken and the most famous of all, turkey. We wanted to show our thanks and gratitude to the Native Americans for their friendship and help through the long hard year.” They all had a wonderful day. Except for Carl! The Native Americans had found him and with their spears they lightly poked him once and said “That’s for selfishness!” Carl said “Owie, well at least I still have my nuggets! He then noticed Native American chowing down on his chicken nuggets.

 The End

Brady Washington, Kid Historian

A Story About America, Episode 6 – The American Flag

One day Frederick was at home with his parents and his little brother. His parents did not know that Frederick had a living drink in his pocket. A The family decided to buy a mini-replica of the American flag. When they brought it home. Frederick’s little brother, Carl, accidently spilled some grow feet juice on the flag. Frederick thought that looked like fun and he spilled the living drink on the flag. And then, “WOOOOSH!” and “WAAACK” and “Flap, flap” and the flag grew feet and legs and started to tap dance.

“What is happening,” yelled Frederick’s daddy. 

“Whoops”, said Frederick and “Whoops” said Frederick’s little brother.

And they heard a booming voice, “Hello, Frederick, thank you for bringing me to life.” 

The flag turned on the TV and saw the Liberty Bell News and stayed there and got entertained.

The flag then wanted to march in a parade. When the flag passed by, people would take off their hats and put their hand over their heart.

The flag said, “Thank you, Thank you, Thank You.”

Then, they all went home and the flag tried to eat some popcorn, but just made a big mess. Frederick’s Daddy said “Frederick!” and “Carl!” Are you making a mess and extra work?” And Carl pointed to Frederick and said, “You did it!”

And then both boys very quietly said, “Eh, Eh, Eh”.

And the flag got away with making a big mess.

The End

This is a fiction story about America, but some of the information is true- 

1. People stand up and take off their hats when the flag passes by.
2. Sometimes people sing the Star Spangled Banner when they see the flag
3. But this is a fact about the whole earth. Flags cannot dance!

I hope you have fun with these stories of myths and legends. And, that you “Read it like you mean it!”

Brady Washington, Kid Historian

A Story About America, Episode 5 – The 4th of July

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Brady Washington, Kid Historian

On July 4, 2018,  Joe P. (the P stands for Pineapple) Trashcan, who was twenty years old, was at home with his parents and his ten year old little brother, Frederick Trashcan and his littler brother, Carl Burnett Trashcan, who was seven. To celebrate the 4^th of July, the family was reading a story about America. His parents did not know that Joe had some of Frederick’s living drink in his pocket and when Joe got tired of reading to Frederick and Carl, he spilled some living juice on the book on purpose.  

“WOOOOSH!” and “splash” and a man climbed out of the pages, and Joe said, “I know him, that’s Samuel Chase, who was one of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, which Joe learned about in a college history class. 

Mr. Chase said, “Where am I?” And Joe said, “This is 2018, in the future.” 

And Carl said, “Do you have a nick name. Mr. Chase said, “I did, but I didn’t like it” Joe, said, “I know your nick name”. Mr. Chase said, Please, don’t say it.” But Joe did it anyway; “Your nickname was “Mr. Old Bacon Face!” Mr. Chase then said “Oh Man, I hoped I would never hear that name again.”

Mr. Old Bacon Face, said, “I signed the Declaration of Independence as Samuel Chase, not as Mr. Old Bacon Face.”

Then Frederick began to feel sorry for Mr. Chase and said, I will call you …” And then Mr. Chase stooped Frederick and said, “Please Don’t say it?” And then Frederick said, “Mr. Chase, I will always call you Mr. Chase.” 

Then Frederick asked Joe and Carl to not call Mr. Chase by the nick name, “Mr. Old Bacon Face.”

“Oh no! said Frederick, I accidently said Mr. Old Bacon Face Again!  But, I will really try to not say ‘Mr. Old Bacon Face’ Again.  OOPS, I did it again. I had better end this story about America before I say, Mr. Old Bacon Face another time. OH NO! I did it again.”

The End 

A Story About America, Episode 4 – Money

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Brady Washington, Kid Historian

One day, Frederick was at school and was just about to walk into history class when his history teacher showed him a five-dollar bill with Abraham Lincoln’s picture on it. But Frederick secretly had a living drink for snack time and he accidentally spilled the whole bottle on the five-dollar bill.

And then, “WOOOOSH!” and “WAAACK” and Abe Lincoln started rising from the money.

“What is happening?” yelled the history teacher.  

“Whoops”, said Frederick.

And they heard Abe Lincoln’s voice, “Hello, Frederick, thank you for bringing me to life.” 

“Well”, said Frederick, “it was accident, but I am glad it happened.”

But the history teacher was not happy and sent Frederick to the principal’s office. Abe followed Frederick to try to cheer him up.

The principal called Frederick’s mommy and when she got to school she said, “Frederick Trashcan, what did you do this time? This is like the times you made the Statue of Liberty, and the Liberty Bell, and the American flag come to life. What did you make come to life this time?” 

“Mrs. Trashcan”, said Abe, “Frederick made me come to life from a five-dollar bill.”

When Mrs. Trashcan got Frederick back home, along with Abe Lincoln, they decided to have a party and invited, Emily (who was the former statue of Liberty), the Liberty Bell who was still wearing the bandage over the crack, and the American Flag, who was still in a parade and tap dancing down the street.

Abe Lincoln said, “Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. for coming to our fantastic party.  Frederick  ordered a roller coaster.”  His daddy said, “Frederick how are we going to pay for a roller coaster?”

Abe said, “I have an idea. I will call a lot of other five dollar bills to come to the party and we can pay for the rollercoaster.”

And Federick said, “Eh, Eh, Eh”.

And they had a great party when the rollercoaster came from Amazon and the roller coaster App!

 The End

A Story About America, Episode 3 – The Flag

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Brady Washington, Kid Historian

One day Frederick was at home with his parents and his little brother. His parents did not know that Frederick had a living drink in his pocket. And his little brother, Sam, had some “grow feet” drink in his pocket. The family decided to buy a mini-replica of the American flag. When they brought it home, Frederick’s little brother accidently spilled some grow feet juice on the flag. Frederick thought that looked like fun and he spilled the living drink on the flag. And then, “WOOOOSH!” and “WAAACK” and “Flap, flap” and the flag grew feet and legs and started to tap dance.

“What is happening?” yelled Frederick’s daddy. 

“Whoops”, said Frederick and “Whoops” said Frederick’s little brother.

And they heard George Washington’s voice, “Hello, Frederick, thank you for bringing me to life.” 

The flag turned on the TV and saw the Liberty Bell News and stayed there and got entertained.

The flag then wanted to march in a parade. When the flag passed by, people would take off their hats and put their hand over their heart.

The flag said, “Thank you, Thank you, Thank You.”

Frederick’s Daddy said “Frederick!” and “Sam!” “Are you making a mess and extra work?” And Sam pointed to Frederick and said, “You did it!” And then both boys very quietly said, “Eh, Eh, Eh”.

And the flag got away with making a big mess.

The End

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Dear readers,

This is a fictional story about America but some of the information is true- 

1. People stand up and take off their hats when the flag passes by.
2. Sometimes people sing the Star Spangled Banner when they see the flag
3. This is a fact about the whole earth. Flags cannot dance!

I hope you have fun with these stories of myths and legends. And, that you “Read it like you mean it!”

Brady Washington, Kid Historian

A Story About America, Episode 1 – Statue of Liberty

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Brady Washington, Kid Historian

One day Frederick was visiting New York City with his parents and his little brother. His parents did not know that Frederick had a living drink in his pocket and he also had car insurance. The family decided to visit the Statue of Liberty and go inside the large statue. Some of the living juice spilled on the floor of the Statue and “WOOOOSH!” and “WAAACK!” and the statue of Liberty started walking with Frederick and his family inside.

“What is happening,” yelled Frederick’s daddy. 

“Whoops”, said Frederick

And they heard a woman’s voice saying, “Hello, welcome to New York City. Where freedom is yours. I’m Lady Liberty.”

“Oh no” said Frederick, I must be dreaming or my mind is playing tricks on me.” And he told his family, “Run, run out of here.” But when they started running, Lady Liberty said “Please stop, it tickles when you run inside of me.”

“Oh, hee, hee, you are tickling me. Oh no! I dropped my torch in the ocean.”

Frederick’s family felt bad since they had caused Lady Liberty to lose her torch. 

Frederick had an idea. “Let’s make a new torch made out of gold with a bright light inside.”

Lady Liberty loved the idea. And that is the torch you see on Lady Liberty today.

After that, Lady Liberty became human, but she wanted the world to still see a Statue of Liberty. So, she asked some workers to build a new one and she gave them her crown, the torch, and the tablet to use for the new statue.

Now when you see the human Lady Liberty walking around, she calls herself Emily.

The End