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An immigrant child named Rettie spends her days caring for her younger siblings and her ailing mother while New York City is raging with deadly influenza. With her father away fighting in World War I, nine-year-old Rettie must fend for her family the best she can. With the Ragamuffin Parade just around the corner, she is excited to participate and get pennies dressed as a beggar so she can buy her family special food for Thanksgiving. But with influenza...
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A day for thanks on Walton's Mountain: Family patriarch John cares for Olivia during her convalescence in Arizona. John-Boy is in New York, grinding out radio scripts. And Jason has his heart set on studying to be a concert pianist. These and other situations threaten to bring the Waltons' time-honored Thanksgiving tradition to an end. But Elizabeth takes action to reunite family and friends.
A Waltons Thanksgiving reunion: Waltons gather from near...
247) Pieces of April
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Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts...
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Squanto & the first Thanksgiving: "True story of a Native American named Squanto, who is captured from his tribe and sold into slavery in Spain. Years later, Squanto regains his freedom and journeys back to his homeland where he teaches the Pilgrims how to survive--culminating in the first Thanksgiving celebration"--Container.
The legend of Sleepy Hollow: "New schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is at odds with local hero and bully Brom Bones for the affection...
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Abstract: Scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and audio recordings documenting the lives of African-Americans Thomas W. Southall, especially his career in the army, particularly his service in Germany in the 1950s, building radio sites; and his wife, Myrtle Forcey-Southall, who performed under the name, Myrtle Wilson, as a contortionist and dancer, and under her later stage name, Joyce Jackson, as a jazz singer. She performed in jazz clubs on...
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