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Commonwealth Museum Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin

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Thanksgiving Mysteries

Thanksgiving Mysteries
Where was the
first Thanksgiving?
The Berkeley
Thanksgiving
Plymouth, 1621
Pilgrims and Puritans
Banning Christmas
Fasting and Feasting
An Early Thanksgiving
Why is Thanksgiving
on Thursday?
Why is turkey
the favorite
Thanksgiving dish?
Into the Nineteenth
Century
Weighing in on
Thanksgiving 1862
A National Holiday
Rediscovering
the Pilgrims
Reassessing a Holiday
“Where was the
first Thanksgiving?”
Share Thanksgiving
Memories

Irish Immigration and the Know-Nothings
Boston in the mid-1850s

Thanksgiving Mysteries

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