Like all great traditions, the Thanksgiving Candlelight Service and Putnam County Historical Society Thanksgiving Dinner is older than most of its participants. Its institution is a tribute to the Pilgrim settlers who founded this country, and the form it takes honors the same Providence that rescued them from persecution and privation.

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