Thanksgiving Traditions
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Columbus Day Parades Across the U.S.

Columbus Day Parades Across the U.S.

Every schoolchild knows that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and his historic journey is said to have paved the way for the New World to exist as we know it today. Many cultures through North and South America celebrate Columbus Day, and we in the United States...

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Planning a Visit to see Fall Foliage

Planning a Visit to see Fall Foliage

Few things are more breathtaking than the vast array of colors that one can witness during fall when the leaves on the trees begin to change colors. Although many vacationers may find that they used all of their allotted vacation days during the summer, autumn is a wonderful time to see the...

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Labor Day

Labor Day

Although you may view it simply as a delightful three-day weekend at the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, Labor Day’s significance far surpasses that which you would be led to believe. The holiday, which is celebrated on the first Monday in September, is unlike many other federal holidays because of...

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How to Plan A Summer Picnic

How to Plan A Summer Picnic

If you ask a few strangers about the most memorable picnic they've ever been on, chances are that they'll share stories of a great idea gone awry. It is deeply embedded in human nature to focus on the negative. Having something go wrong incites the same part of your memory that holds grudges and spawns...

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Ice Cream

Ice Cream

Who doesn’t love ice cream? Ice cream has become one of the most popular desserts in the United States and the rest of the world. Worldwide, ice cream has become a multi-billion dollar industry that is getting bigger and bigger each year. While we’ve all experience ice cream from a small age, the history of...

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Barbecue Schools Across the United States

Barbecue Schools Across the United States

Part of the mystique of the venerable culinary method of barbecue involves closely-guarded secrets passed down through generations, long hours of trial and error to make just the right marinade, and other such practices that evoke images of a place where porches are actually used and lemonade cools the...

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Celebrating Fourth of July

Celebrating Fourth of July

The United States of America has existed for well over two centuries as a country that values freedom as its highest ideal. When our forefathers, fed up with Great Britain’s oppressive rule and taxation without representation, created and adopted the Declaration of Independence, the United States of ...

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