Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The New Yorker covers: November 26, 1949

When was the first thanksgiving in what would become the United States? Virginia says 1619 in, of course, Virginia. More familiar, though, is a 1621 feast in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, involving Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people. Competing claims aside, the American holiday is now celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.

Constantin Alajalov
(covers untitled until February 1993)

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