We just gobbled up a story by Vermont Public Radio on 19th-century turkey drives in which turkeys were herded and marched from the Green Mountain State to Boston in time for Thanksgiving.
"We're talking about thousands [of turkeys] in each trip ... Up to 10,000," Peter Gilbert, chair of the Vermont Humanities Council, tells Vermont Edition. "One of the largest drives in the fall of 1824 involved 40 homesteads ... They went all the way from northern Vermont and the Canadian border by a variety of routes, through Ferrisburgh in the west, down the Connecticut River [in the east]."
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The pun only adds insult to injury
By Turkey Liberati...
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:48pm
The genocide of our people is long and well documented. That it is celebrated by our cannibalistic oppressors with a feast commemorating the colonization of our ancestral homelands is even more offensive.
Turkey talons are sharp and strong.
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 11/28/2014 - 8:03am
Their memory fresh. You can take their gizzard but you'll never take away their freedom.
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