Infant and Toddler Group is looking for a volunteer leader! The Infant and Toddler Playgroup is hoping to find a volunteer to act as its leader for the spring semester. The group currently meets every Wednesday morning from 10:00 am to 11:30 am in the Harvard Neighbors space at 17 Quincy St. This is a fun group and requires no planning or preparation. The leader greets the toddlers and their moms or dads each week and get toys out for them to play with. The previous leader, Charlotte Powell recently gave birth to a baby girl and is taking some time off. Contact Harvard Neighbors at neighbors@harvard.edu if you can spare

about an hour and a half each week.

Y2Y food donation ride Dear Neighbors! We are looking for your support ! Our traditional Thanksgiving Food Drive will help Y2Y Harvard Square Organization to fill up their pantry for the winter season! Food donations are gladly accepted each weekday from 9 am to 5 pm in our office! Thank you for your

generosity!

Harvard Neighbors Holiday Party! Save the date! Our Holiday Party is on Thursday , December 8 from 5 pm

to 7 pm at Neighbors activity room ! As a tradition we will have a holiday festive snacks

and drinks! Please feel free to bring a Harvard University friend or colleague who you think would enjoy the party. All are welcome! Our Holiday Party is typically a bit of a potluck ! We will be very appreciative if you consider bringing your favorite dish to share with the rest of the party guests!

Maps on the Wall ! Harvard Neighbors’ members come from all corners of the world! Next time you are in our activity room you will be able to pin your country, state or even the city you came from ! We have put maps on the wall and we will be excited to see how many places

on Earth our members called home! It’s a small world after all!

book by actor Liam Neeson is piped through the train cars, one of which is capped by a glass dome. A half-hour later, the train will pull into the decorated North Pole—the exact site of which railroad officials won’t disclose—where Santa will be waiting and waving. He’ll hop on the train for the ride back to Buzzards Bay, and he’ll greet each child and give him or her a gift of a silver sleigh bell. Ticket prices range from $29 to $84, de-pending on class of service and date of travel. For more information, vis-it www.capetrain.com/polar-express-train-ride, or call 888-797-7245.

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Monday 11/21

12:00PM Living Green

1:00PM Telling Lives - Memoir Writing

3:00PM English Conversation Practice

Tuesday 11/22

10:00AM English Conversation Practice

12:00PM Knitting for Everyone

Wednesday 11/23

10:00AM Infant and Toddler Playgroup

7:30PM MIT Women’s Chorale

Rehearsal

Thursday 11/24

Thanksgiving ! No classes.

Friday 11/25

Thanksgiving ! No classes.

Monday 11/28

12:00PM Lunchtime Book Group

3:00PM English Conversation Practice

Tuesday 11/29

10:00AM English Conversation Practice

12:00PM Knitting for Everyone

Wednesday 11/30

10:00AM Infant and Toddler

Playgroup

7:30PM MIT Women’s Chorale

Rehearsal

Thursday 12/01

9:30AM Art Exploration

1:00PM English Conversation Practice

Friday 12/02

12:30PM French Conversation

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With Polar Express to the ‘North Pole’ Santa Claus’s North Pole is only as far away as the imagination—or, in the case of the Cape Cod Central Railroad, about a half-hour out of Buzzards Bay. The railroad kicks off its new Polar Express Train Ride, a trademark of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and the only one in Massachusetts, on Friday. The holiday rides run through Dec. 23 and start and end in Buzzards Bay. Each trip is set to the sounds of the motion picture The Polar Express, which was based on Chris Van Allsburg’s book of the same name. Once aboard, dancing elves will serve hot chocolate and cookies to kids and families dressed in pajamas (seriously, it’s encouraged) as a recorded reading of the

P A G E 2 Thanksgiving Trip Idea

Located three miles south of Plymouth Center, Plimoth

Plantation is a living history museum dedicated to

telling the history of Plymouth Colony from the per-

spective of both the Pilgrims and the Native Wampa-

noag people. The museum is a Smithsonian Institution

Affiliate that includes the Wampanoag Homesite, 17th-

Century English Village, Craft Center, Plimoth Bread

Company, Plimoth Grist Mill and Mayflower II (under

repair-due back in 2019), a full-scale reproduction of

the original ship that sailed to Plymouth in 1620. The

first outdoor living history exhibit you will encounter on

your visit is the Wampanoag Homesite, located on the

banks of the Eel River. The first outdoor living history

exhibit you will encounter on your visit is the Wampa-

noag Homesite, located on the banks of the Eel Riv-

er. The staff in the Wampanoag Homesite are not role players. They are all

Native People - either Wampanoag or from other Native Nations - and

they will be dressed in historically accurate clothing, mostly made of deer-

skin. They speak from a modern perspective about Wampanoag history

and culture. The 17th-Century English Village is a re-creation of the small

farming and maritime community built by the Pilgrims* along the shore of

Plymouth Harbor. The English Village brings colonial Plymouth vividly to

life. Here, you will find modest timber-framed houses furnished with re-

productions of the types of objects that the Pilgrims owned, aromatic

kitchen gardens, and heritage breeds livestock. Engaging townspeople are

eager to tell you about their new lives in Plymouth Colony. The people you

meet are costumed role players portraying actual residents of Plymouth

Colony. They have adopted the names, viewpoints and life histories of the

people who lived and worked in the Colony. Each has a unique story to tell.

Their viewpoints might shock or fascinate you, educate or entertain you.

Imagine you have travelled back in time and can hear directly from the

Pilgrims about the Colony's difficult beginnings. Ask about religious beliefs,

education and child rearing, relations with Native People, gardens, cook-

ing, or any topic of interest to you.

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For Your Thanksgiving Weekend The Nutcracker at the Boston Opera House

This is the New England's favorite Christmas family attraction ! Get your holiday season off to a great start by heading to the Boston Opera House for a soaring per-formance of Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker. Enchanting dancers, Tchaikovsky's magical music, and the beauty of the Boston Opera House will transport you to an-other world. Opening night is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and

performances continue through-out December.

1. A tradition is born: TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! Some industrious soul came up with a brilliant plan: Why not slice up the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side? Thus, the first TV dinner was born! 2. Going shopping?: Not if you're a plumber. Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for them, according to Roto-Rooter, the nation's largest plumbing service. After all, someone has to clean up after household guests who "overwhelm the system." 3. This land is my land: There are four places in the U.S. named Turkey. Louisiana's Turkey Creek is the most populous, with a whopping 440 residents. There's also Turkey, Texas; Turkey, North Carolina; and Turkey Creek, Arizona. Oh, let's not forget the two townships in Pennsylvania: the creatively named Upper Turkeyfoot and Lower Turkeyfoot! 4. Leaving a legacy: When Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, it was thanks to the tireless efforts of a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale. Her other claim to fame? She also wrote the nursery rhyme, "Mary had a Little Lamb." 5. Gobble, gobble?: Not so fast. Only male turkeys, called toms, gobble. Females, called hens, cackle. 6. Have it your way: If Ben Franklin did, the turkey would be our national bird. An eagle, he wrote in a letter to his daughter, had "bad moral character." A turkey, on

the other hand, was a "much more respectable bird." 7. Born in the U.S.A.: Thanksgiving is not just an American holiday. Canadians celebrate it too. Except they do it the second Monday in October. 8. Doomed from birth: Those poor turkeys; they don't stand a chance. Just look at the name we gave them. A turkey less than 12-weeks-old is called a fryer-roaster. 9. Talking turkey: Why is it called a turkey? Oh boy, this will take some explaining. Back in the day, the Europeans took a liking to the guinea fowls imported to the continent. Since the birds were imported by Turkish merchants, the English called them turkeys. Later, when the Spaniards came to America, they found a bird that tasted like those guinea fowls. When they were sent to Europe, the English called these birds "turkeys" as well.

Interesting Facts About Thanksgiving

Lighting of the Pilgrim Monument

Visit Pilgrim Monument & Prov-incetown Museum at High Pole Hill Road, Provincetown for the annual celebration that honors the Pilgrims’ First Landing in America at Provincetown on Nov. 11, 1620. The event takes place on Nov. 23, 2011, from 5 to 7 p.m. and the lights will stay throughout New Year's Day. www.pilgrim-monument.org/lighting for more information.