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From the Macy’s Day Parade with enormous floating cartoons to presidents pardoning turkeys, the most American of holidays rests on the centuries-old story that Pilgrims and Native people held a feast of goodwill that spawned the annual turkey tradition observed across the U.S.
This is the second of a three-part series on Norwich founder John Mason, commander for the Colonies of Connecticut during the brutal Pequot War of 1637.
Jeroen Dewulf is Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he developed a new course on the Dutch history of New York that in 2012 was awarded the American Cultures Innovation in Teaching Award.
Among those referenced by Norwich Town Historian Plummer is the onetime Great Sachem of the Narragansett tribe, Miantonomo, whose monument lies in a remote
Before you pass the turkey, remember it all began with an ethnic cleansing.