No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic ...

The meal shared by the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims consisted of mostly venison. In fact, the only foodstuff on record specifically by name are the three deer the Wampanoag people brought to the ...

Thanksgiving weekend is fast approaching, and the traditions are widespread across the country: pumpkin pie, turkey, football ...

For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful ...

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets – William “Billy” Lee and the young ...

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with ...

As divided and as stressed as we are, we do have much to be thankful for It’s one of history’s greatest ironies that a holiday that we’ve come to associate with belt-loosening and piling the plate ...

Many businesses and government agencies will close on Nov. 28 in observance of Thanksgiving. The holiday marks early settlers ...

As November sometimes has five Thursdays, this meant that the holiday could fall as late as the last day of the month. When ...

FOURTEEN young people and four staff members from West Belfast Irish language youth organisation Fóram na nÓg have returned ...

The Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, headquartered in Plymouth, has been granted state recognition. Gov. Maura Healey's office ...

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving is less than a week away.