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 ...

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 ...

Berkley Plantation, arguably the most historic plantation on the James River, lays claim to a certain and subtle upset in American history marking the spot of the first real Thanksgiving. A full year ...