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It started as a feast of thanks for a good harvest, a feast to celebrate that harvest and it was an indigenous custom before the first European landed in the Americas. Some of the foods served still show up on holiday tables, including turkeys, squash, corn and pumpkins.
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I heard a new term the other day you’ll immediately understand, even if you’ve never heard it before. The new term is “Doomscrolling”.
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Usually when I see the word “pie” in a recipe name I think of dessert and my favorite, pecan pie.
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The air grows crisp as the grasses scratch at bare legs. It’s time to pick seeds out of socks and find homes for all the garden tomatoes and zucchini carefully tended through the summer.
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Now I want to have a conversation with all of you. “Tradition” and “Traditions” are different. Almost every family has “Traditions.” Thanksgiving, for example, is probably one of the biggest and well-known traditions.
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I’m 24. I just moved to “the Lower Mainland” where I’d teach school for six years. I meet Jane Ujimoto and we plan a trip to San Francisco for the following year.
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The lure of gold drew miners to Rossland in the late 1890s. They brought dreams of hitting it rich. Some of these seekers were Scandinavians who also brought their skis.
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2020 is already a year for the history books. While the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus have been front and center worldwide, Americans are also in the middle of partaking in our once-in-a-decade constitutional duty: the 2020 Census.
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I got a new perspective on home as I looked over a picture of a husband and wife embraced at the foundation of their house that burned to the ground and of the picture of a mom sobbing into her grown son’s arms standing in the ashen remains of their community.
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