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It's Thanksgiving time here in America,

and even though retailers leave straight from Halloween to Christmas, I love this holiday.

Thanksgiving gives us a chance to pause and count our blessings.

Something that goes back to the first American Thanksgiving celebrated in October of 1621.

The new residents of Plymouth Plantation had a lot to be grateful for.

They arrived at Cape Cod 11 months before woefully unprepared.

As historian Nathaniel Philbrick said, by all rights, none of the pilgrims should have emerged from this first winter alive.

The pilgrims were hoping for a climate like the French Riviera. But no, even for the cooler

climb, that particular winter was brutal. In fact, half of them didn't live to see another.

They knew plenty about farming, hunting, and fishing,

that is if they still lived in England. But the crops they brought weren't suited for

the new soil. Their nets and hooks were the wrong size for local fish. And while birds

filled to Massachusetts skies in the summer.

They flew south for the winter.

The Mayflower was supposed to be packed with fish and furs

when it returned to England, but instead,

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