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Pat Ivey

Ivey is a former staff writer of the Courier News.

Pilgrim or Puritan -- what's in a name?

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

In a few days we will all observe the national holiday totally devoted to stuffing ourselves with turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and other foods the Native American's introduced to the first settlers of this country. And if you are like my family was, you will gather with your extended family at the home of the matriarch, and somewhere during the day someone will dress their kids up as pilgrims and Indians and put on some type of a little skit using what we now accept as the story of our first colonists.

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