How to Celebrate Thanksgiving in Switzerland

Allan Milne Lees
4 min readNov 21, 2019
Image credit: Discover Magazine

Thanksgiving is a holiday invented after the American Civil War in the hope that it would help bind a divided nation together. After all, while folk may disagree about the merits of slavery and lynching people with dark skin, surely we can all agree on the merits of over-eating and subsequent indigestion.

And so a series of myths were promulgated and All Became Good.

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Allan Milne Lees

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