We are thankful …
Each year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans gather for a day of feasting, football, and family. While today’s Thanksgiving celebrations would likely be unrecognizable to those who attended the original 1621 harvest meal, it continues to be a day for Americans to come together around the table as a time of thanksgiving. The first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621. More than 200 years later, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in…
