1 THANKSGIVING'S BEGINNINGS ARE STILL DEBATED
Tradition has it that the first Thanksgiving – a celebration of good harvest – took place in 1621, when English Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts shared a meal with their Native American neighbours. However, the late historian Michael Gannon argued that the first Thanksgiving celebration in North America actually took place half a century earlier, in Florida. On 8 September 1565, following a religious service, Spaniards
