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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Burns Branch Library!

In 1620, a group of pilgrims sailed from Europe to the United States, on a ship called the Mayflower. The pilgrims settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was winter when the pilgrims first arrived and nearly half of them died that first year.

Two Wampanoag Indians names Squanto and Samoset helped the pilgrims by teaching them how to farm the land and build their homes. That next fall, the pilgrims had food to eat and homes to live in. The pilgrims invited the Indians to eat with them and they feasted and celebrated for thre...