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Arts & Culture

Analyzing Poetry in Context

 “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” When I was young and first came across these lines, I thought, “Oh, what a […]

Arts & Culture

Fact or Fiction? The True History of Thanksgiving

Plymouth, 1621. Pilgrims, who had arrived on the Mayflower one year earlier, and a handful of Native Americans from nearby tribes gather to celebrate a successful harvest with an extravagant feast. Three days long, the event includes many of the traditional Thanksgiving foods Americans enjoy today: pies, mashed potatoes, cranberry […]