A Turkey Day timeline
A brief history of the Thanksgiving holiday, for all my turkeys out there.
1620: The Mayflower departs England for America.
1621: The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag sit down to dinner.
1705: The town of Colchester, Conn., postpones Thanksgiving for a week after the river freezes over and delays the delivery of molasses, meaning residents couldn’t make pumpkin pie.
1784: In a letter to his daughter, Benj…
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