Goetze: While researching the historical and legendary 1621 Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving, I discovered interesting and somewhat contradictory material.

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Thanksgiving, a cherished holiday for family and gratitude, began as a harvest festival in 1621 with Pilgrims and Wampanoag.

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This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in ...

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This was the event that now marks the first American day of Thanksgiving, even though many Indigenous peoples had long had rituals that included giving thanks and other European settlers had ...

Mismatched feasts,” family feasts and the land that nurtures us: reasons for thanks. Three books for kids up to 8, ...

Thanksgiving has slowly risen to the top spot as my No. 1 favorite holiday. Perhaps that comes as no surprise as no other holiday is quite so closely entwined with cooking and feeding a happy table of ...

Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that brings up fond memories of family, friends, and of course, food. But there’s so much more to this holiday than just the turkey and the trimmings. Beyond the ...

A few years after having children, Todd and I grew tired of the typical Thanksgiving celebration. It wasn’t the turkey and filling that pushed us to this alternative. It was sitting around afterwards, ...