Happy Thanksgiving. According to Stan Freberg, comic and actor, the holiday celebrates the mayoral election in Plymouth, 1621; America’s first fundraising campaign dinner. Of course, the "Indians" were invited; they represented a substantial voting block at the time. I like this Thanksgiving model.
DAVID ROSMAN: Free news is a business model worth replicating
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CST;
updated 10:18 a.m. CST, Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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