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Thanksgiving Day: Pilgrims were a surprisingly worldly, tolerant lot

Pilgrims who braved the Mayflower were profoundly shaped by their 11 years in Leiden, Netherlands, where they arrived 400 years ago this year. Deeply devout, they were also some of the most tolerant among Puritan groups who headed to the new world.
Indiana's Amish, laid off from RV factories, return to their plows

The ‘easy money’ of factory work was a mixed blessing, some say. Now, some men have a lot to learn about the traditional Amish livelihood.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

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Thanksgiving Day: Pilgrims were a surprisingly worldly, tolerant lot

Indiana's Amish, laid off from RV factories, return to their plows

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