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What you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ isn’t true. Here’s the real story
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school...
Celebrate the Holiday Season with Family in Provincetown
Out Traveler via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs the seaside frost settles into Provincetown, there’s no shortage of opportunities to heat things...
Sheila Hickman: The harrowing journey that led to the First Thanksgiving
Columbia Daily Herald via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn July 1620, the Mayflower set sail from England to bring the Pilgrims to the New World. Her sister...
How a strapping 17th-century pilgrim settled Norwell and paved the way for Stetson hats
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNORWELL − Cornet Robert Stetson certainly sounds like a dashing figure, part of the Great Pilgrim...
What science and history teach us about the first Thanksgiving
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThanksgiving is a time to be with family and friends. However, most of what we believe about...
The Grinch who stole Thanksgiving
The St. Augustine Record via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Grinch who stole Thanksgiving Every fourth Thursday in November, Americans gather to share a Thanksgiving meal. History dates the holiday’s origins...
How medieval Catholic traditions of thanksgiving prayers and feasting shaped the Protestant...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Catholic hymn, "Te Deum" -- which says, “You, God, we praise” -- has been used for centuries in...
Burgess: Religious freedom is who we are
Chillicothe Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWe Americans have always traced our history back to the Pilgrims, who left England to escape religious persecution. Actually, they first moved to...
How Thanksgiving Works
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPrepare to eat a lot of delicious food on Thanksgiving Day. bhofack2/iStock/Thinkstock Have you ever wondered why Americans gather around the table each...
Haynes faith column: Here's few recommended book titles read in 2023
Amarillo Globe-News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAt the end of 2022, I wrote in this space about the books I had read that year. I said it was seven,...