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My friends, just picture this: champagne-colored hats decorated with red roses, pink carnations, sunflowers and golden taffeta ribbons. Fascinators boasting downy-soft feathers and tiny, dancing beads of green, gold, red, blue and additional hues that are too unique to name.
Phil Cyr, administrator of Caribou Rehab and Nursing Center, received a Setting the Standard Award in the 2023 McKnight's Pinnacle Awards.
Phil Cyr was in high school when his father, a potato farmer, opened the Caribou Nursing Home in 1973 and began building a family dynasty.
In my last column I discussed the differences between the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Pilgrims of Plymouth. Millions of Americans descend from these Protestant settlers and quite often have ancestors from both colonies. You probably do if your ancestors were here in New England in the 17th or 18th century.
Pilgrims. Puritans. Did your ancestors number among them and is there a difference? Even Henry Louis Gates on Finding Your Roots once told a Mayflower descendant they had Puritan ancestors.