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By Richard Milner/Jan. 1, 2021 10:43 am EDT
Even if you re hazy on the details, most people who made it through elementary school in the US can relate an overview of the now-mythologized Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock tale that constitutes part of the nation s early narrative. We ve got those Pilgrim guys in black, with buckles on their shoes, who were completely unfun at parties and are often confused with Puritans (we ll get back to that). We ve got their ship, the
, which landed on what is maybe an actual stone called Plymouth Rock. We ve got lots of people dying the first winter, and Native Americans teaching them what to do to survive in a harsh, new world, their generosity repaid by stealing their land bit by bit (another story). But before that, we ve got Thanksgiving, where everyone sat around a big picnic table and someone shot a turkey with a musket while posing next to a cornucopia full of squash and o