The Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, headquartered in Plymouth, has been granted state recognition. Gov. Maura Healey's office ...

For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful ...

Thanksgiving weekend is fast approaching, and the traditions are widespread across the country: pumpkin pie, turkey, football ...

No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic ...

As November sometimes has five Thursdays, this meant that the holiday could fall as late as the last day of the month. When ...

President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time selecting another candidate for attorney general after Matt Gaetz dropped his ...

When a police officer ordered Eugenia Fortes and a friend off a whites-only Barnstable beach nearly 80 years ago, Fortes ...

As we gather with our families over a Thanksgiving meal, please remember our firefighters, police officers and our military, ...

Did the Pilgrims have pets? Apparently they brought dogs with them to the new world! BUT - that doesn't mean they should ...

As divided and as stressed as we are, we do have much to be thankful for It’s one of history’s greatest ironies that a holiday that we’ve come to associate with belt-loosening and piling the plate ...

The meal shared by the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims consisted of mostly venison. In fact, the only foodstuff on record specifically by name are the three deer the Wampanoag people brought to the ...

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving is less than a week away.