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Thanksgiving Day in 1621 Long Affair
New York report recounts the first Pilgrim festival at Plymouth as a week of feasting rather than a religious day. It lasted several days with wild turkey venison seafood and cornmeal desserts, then expanded into later colonial observances leading to a national holiday.
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New York
Llp
Plymouth
William Bradford
H. S. J. Sickel
America
Edward Winslow
England
New England
Miles Standish
Council
Charlestown
Mass
Abraham Lincoln