Before entering our mandatory food comas this year, we pause to reflect on the curious fact that several historical societies regard the official Plymouth Plantation Thanksgiving story as a bit of Massachusetts pro-Pilgrim propaganda.
These local history buffs are not anti-Thanksgiving -- not even anti-Pilgrim necessarily. They point out that the first of the two feasts, held in October 1621 and then July 1623, was more of a harvest feast than an official cycle of fasting and gorging and thanksgiving to God.
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