Word: plymouth
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...come to like Thanksgiving even though it was not a big deal in Canada at all. It’s an acquired tradition when I moved here to Cambridge...We spend it in Truro, where the pilgrims landed before they came to Plymouth. They anchored in Provincetown and they sent out a party that found water and corn in Truro. They thanked God when they should have really thanked the Indians...
...longer be the case. Replacing Columbus Day with a holiday celebrating Native American culture will do much to bring this country to the realization that its history consists of many episodes less wholesome than the common image—real or imagined—of the first Thanksgiving, where Plymouth colonists shared corn with the local native tribes...
...first formal Thanksgiving ceremony in Canada was held by the explorer Martin Frobisher in 1578, 43 years before the celebrations by settlers in Plymouth, Mass. in 1621. Both holidays commemorate the end of the harvest season...
...Fast Facts • Born Jan. 7, 1975, in Plymouth, N.H. Her father was a dentist and her mother an assistant principal...
...Look at kids. In May a team of researchers at Peninsula Medical School in the U.K. traveled to Amsterdam to present some surprising findings to the European Congress on Obesity. The Peninsula scientists had studied 206 kids, ages 7 to 11, at three schools in and around Plymouth, a city of 250,000 on the southern coast of England. Kids at the first school, an expensive private academy, got an average of 9.2 hours per week of scheduled, usually rigorous physical education. Kids at the two other schools - one in a village near Plymouth and the other an urban school...