The Thanksgiving holiday as we know it today has pretty much been unchanged for years. I know that for me, my family has been celebrating this holiday the same way since at least the 1980s, but I didn't exist before then to know any different. That's the thing about traditions - you keep them the same because they always bring back great memories.

New York itself has had a very long and storied history with Thanksgiving. If you thought that we've all been gathering around carving turkeys since the Pilgrims first did that in 1621 you'd be very mistaken. As a matter of fact it wasn't even an official public holiday until 1789.

New York The First

New York was the first state in the entire nation to start celebrating Thanksgiving nationally. It doesn't hurt that at the time New York City wa

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