How Americans celebrate Thanksgiving has changed A LOT over the years. From the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts with the Pilgrims sitting down to eat with the Wampanoag to today's parade watching, football cheering, food orgy, and Christmas shopping kick-off.
How Medina has celebrated Thanksgiving has also changed over the years as these following newspaper clippings from The Medina Gazette illustrate:
From 1870, a very low key celebration:
Charity was still alive and well in 1937:
Check out those prices!!
By 1955, all types of businesses had started to find ways to cash in on the holiday...
And anticipate the Christmas shopping season:
However you chose to celebrate, HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and yours!!
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