From the Mayflower to the Midwest: The Illinois connection to Thanksgiving’s history
Long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621 and celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that ...
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How a Girl Named Remember, Age 5, and Her Fellow Pilgrims Endured the Crossing of the North Atlantic To Reach America
As Americans gather for Thanksgiving, they celebrate the legacy of the Pilgrims’ success. Lost in the holiday’s mythology are ...
It's not a 'warm, fuzzy' Thanksgiving for all: Why some honor a 'National Day of Mourning'
The third Thursday of November is the National Day of Mourning for some Indigenous peoples. They are fighting for ecological ...
A tale of two colonizing peoples, the Puritans and Pilgrims
Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the English Protestant ...
SouthCoast High School Football Thanksgiving playoff scores and highlights
All nine SouthCoast football teams are competing during Thanksgiving week with two games on Wednesday night and five on ...
National Day of Mourning in Plymouth draws hundreds to protest treatment of Indigenous people
The ceremony dates back to 1970 when Kisha James‘ grandfather was invited to speak at a commemoration of the 350th ...
Commentary: Let’s be thankful despite our differences
It is worth remembering the original story of the Pilgrims’ embarkation on the Mayflower as recorded in Gov. William Bradford ...
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Read the Only Eye Witness Account of What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving
Winslow, who was at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621 and is the only person we know who wrote about it, sent the following letter to a friend in 1621. In 1622, this letter was printed in a ...
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Amari Williams runs rampant in three-touchdown performance to lift Upper Cape by Cape Tech
Amari WIlliams stepped up in a big moment to help Upper Cape win the Mayflower Athletic Conference division championship.
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Lessons From the First Thanksgiving and the Many Since [Opinion]
Life in the “New Word” is markedly different since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock more than 400 years ago. Since then, ...
London’s 20 greatest historic pubs
Claims of great antiquity are as common as £7 pints in London pubs (and only slightly more welcome). Every pub, it can ...
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When And Where Was The First Thanksgiving Feast?
“Ha!” says a Florida group, asserting the very, very first Thanksgiving happened in 1565 when the Spanish settlers of St.