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Boston author and magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale petitioned several U.S. presidents to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, and she finally succeeded with Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
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Thanksgiving is a national holiday thanks to a Boston woman

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A government warning about possible herbicide contamination decimated the cranberry industry in 1959, right before Thanksgiving.
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Cranberry scare tanked Thanksgiving sales in 1959

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Alice Brock, who inspired folk musician Arlo Guthrie’s signature 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died in November at age 83.
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Legacy of Alice Brock and ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ lives on

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