CHARLES CITY — When the Pilgrims left England aboard the Mayflower on Sept. 6, 1620, they were already late for the first official Thanksgiving observed by the English in the New World. On Dec. 4, ...

Have you ever been to the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City? I went to the annual event for the first time. It takes place on the first Sunday in November. The step ...

Ahead of Thanksgiving, some may think of food, family and often, Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The truth is people should be thinking local on Thanksgiving. Along Route 5 in Charles City County ...

WASHINGTON — Yes, Virginia, there was a thanksgiving celebration at Berkeley Plantation. But no, it was not the very first in North America. Tuesday, during a visit to WTOP, Virginia Gov. Terry ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Get ready for the annual Virginia Thanksgiving Festival! On Sunday, Nov. 5 th, thousands of people are expected to take a step back in history to commemorate America’s First ...

This week, two new TV programs will present the story of an early-American Thanksgiving, but both National Geographic Channel’s four-hour “Saints & Strangers” (9 p.m. today and Monday) and PBS’s ...

As a young man, I often received correspondence from Dr. Fred Woodlief, a dentist on Chamberlayne Avenue in Richmond. He was involved in the Woodlief Family Association and made me aware that an ...

There was a lot to be thankful about for the passengers of Good Ship Margaret on Dec. 4, 1619. Since Sept. 16, more than 50 people had been crammed on the ship for its journey from Bristol, England, ...

It was on bended knee in December 1619, along the banks of the James River, that newly arrived colonists celebrated a service of Thanksgiving. Nearly 392 years later, the scene unfolded again Sunday ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will be releasing an adult bald eagle that has been a patient at the Center since late March. The eagle will be released at 1 p.m. Wednesday by Center President Ed ...

It took a Massachusetts-born U.S. President — John F. Kennedy — to recognize that colonial Virginia had a day of Thanksgiving. Kennedy pronounced in his official Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1963: ...

The 57th Virginia Thanksgiving Festival was held at Berkeley Plantation Sunday to remember and celebrate history. “The point of the festival is the re-enactment of the first Thanksgiving,” said Tammy ...