Today is the birthday of the creator, Charles Schultz.
>I watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special the other night, so I'm current on my history of this :-)
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>>You are correct.
>>A very interesting place is Plimouth Plantation in Plymouth Massachusetts. I have been there several times, with kids during school trips.
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>>>You are both correct. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by pilgrims who left England to have religious freedom. The original Thanksgiving was a celebration of a safe arrival (for the survivors), a bounteous harvest and new Native American friends. It was also a remembrance of those they lost on the journey.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham