The first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts was 400 years ago this year in 1621.
I like Thanksgiving. I like the fact that sitting down to virtually the same meal I had as a kid brings back all kinds of memories: my childhood, my children’s childhoods, now my grandchildren’s childhoods. I envision the childhoods of my parents and grandparents, too, imagining what it was like for them.

Two of my forebears, William Towne and Joanna Blessing Towne, sailed out of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England in 1635 and landed in Massachusetts Colony. They missed the first Thanksgiving, but not by much. I wonder whether they celebrated Thanksgiving after their first harvest and, if so, what it was like.
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