It doesn’t start there because those things never happened, despite being immortalized in American mythos for generations. It also doesn’t start a year later, with the Pilgrims and the native Wampanoag all sitting together to “break bread” and celebrate their first successful harvest and a long, harmonious relationship to come. The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims - the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" - doesn’t start in 1620, with the cold and seasick Pilgrims stepping off the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock.
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