First Thanksgiving facts challenge myth and life today
Pilgrims ate wild turkey and venison and drank beer in 1621. The feast lasted three days near Leyden Street, Plymouth, with Massasoit and about 90 Wampanoag guests. Winslow’s 1622 letter is the only written account. Indian leader Francis James calls the event sorrowful for his people and questions the Pilgrims’ motives.
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Plymouth
Mass
UPI
David B. Freeman
Plimoth Plantation
Leyden Street
Plymouth Rock
Cape Cod
Freeman
Massasoit
Pilgrim Society
Delaware
Vermont House Faces Reversal on Size Reduction
Vermont lawmakers reversed earlier support for cutting the 150 member House to 90. The improvement study committee opposed any reduction and urged abolition of all legislative council study committees. Absent were Sen. Richard Mallary and House Speaker John Burgess, both proponents of smaller representation.
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House
Senate
Bon Acre Mall plan eyed along Route 43 midway Averill Park West Sand Lake
In New York plans were announced for a 1 million dollar plus Bon Acre Mall on Route 43 between Averill Park and West Sand Lake. The 23 acre site will include a Grand Union supermarket and 33 other shops with 500 car parking and is to open by early fall 1971. The site sits on former Perrault property.
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Averill Park
West Sand Lake
Bon Acre Mall
Grand Union
Leo
Harvey Perrault
Bishop Weldon wins 1970 AIDE humanitarian award
In Pittsfield the Most Rev. Christopher J. Weldon D D bishop of Springfield is named winner of the 1970 AIDE Award for distinguished humanitarian response to drug abuse. Announcement came from Capt Lawrence E Brothers Jr commanding officer of the U S Army Reserve in Springfield an AIDE officer and award committee member. In Pittsfield the mayor confirms by letter that the city will relocate a sewer line on Deering Street to secure HUD approval for Berkshire Life Insurance Co plan to build 125 low and middle income housing in the Jubilee urban renewal project area delayed for two years. In North Adams a second investment group shows interest in building an in town motel on a 1 1/2 acre parcel south from Main Street to the Hadley overpass cleared except for the Joseph Pontier buildings set for abandonment by December 14.
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Pittsfield
Christopher J. Weldon
Springfield
Mass
AIDE
Association For International Drug Education
Lawrence E. Brothers Jr
U.S. Army Reserve
Donald Butler
Deering Street
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Berkshire Life Insurance Co
North Adams
Main Street
Hadley
Joseph Pontier
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Charles Calley
Edward Winslow
London
Eastern Indian League
Narragansett
Cambridge, Mass
National Air Pollution Control Administration
John T. Middleton
Middleton
MIT
New England
Rome
Via del Tritone
Tangerines
U.S
Cortland
Chase & Sanborn
A&p
Nestle
Maxwell House
Ibs
Turkey
Swift
U.S. Gov't
Cypress Garden
del Monte
Birdseye
Vienna Fingers
Nabisco
Mrs. Smith
Brazil
MAXIM
Mrs. Margarine
Lbert’s Golden
Jiffy
Oke
Jane Parker
Rea
Johnny Cas
Mahala Jackson
Mitch Miller
Ray Conniff
Percy Faith
Robert Goulet
Johnny Mathis
Leonard Bernstein
the Mormon
Andre Kostelanetz
Steve Lawrence
Barbra Streis and
Eydie Gorme
Tammy Wynette
Bernacle Choir
Loz
Cosco
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Main St
Dial
Bennington
Vermont
Somerset
Adams, Mass
Somerset Reservoir
Brian Flagg
Robert Gilly Jr
Robert Gilly Sr
Adam Crips
Adams
Poultney Boy
East Poultney
Kevin Kenyon
New York
Albany
Albany Evening Journal
William F
Billy’’ Barnes
Broadway
O’connell
Troy
Ralph A. DeSantis
League of Women Voters
Trojans For
DeSantis
Troy-Albany-Schenectady
New York State
State Department of Labor
Saratoga County
Down In
Berkshire
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