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The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region.

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Thanksgiving

Photograph of a marching band on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. In the foreground, girls twirl rifles and in the background, flags

Members of the Upper Dublin High School marching band twirl rifles and flags as they march in the 1976 Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries)

» By Mikaela Maria

Although inspired by a 1621 feast shared by Pilgrims and Native Americans in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Thanksgiving traditions emerged from more than two centuries of celebrations influenced by social classes, ethnic groups, and the rise of consumer culture. Some of the most popular practices of Thanksgiving by the twenty-first century originated in Philadelphia. In colonial America, ⇒ Read More

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