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Article: A Thanksgiving to Remember : Ten years after czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution" ended communist rule, an american recalls witnessing that momentous event.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of traditions and memories: turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce; mother's special pumpkin pie; perhaps a long journey to visit relatives; college football on television and touch football on the lawn.
But for me, Thanksgiving means memories of Prague: roast pork and bread dumplings with pickled cabbage salad on the side; mugs of foamy Czech beer; the snow-dusted spires of the Tyn Church; the romance of walking across the Charles Bridge at midnight without another soul in sight.
Every November for ten years, from 1983 through 1992, my husband, Tom, and I traveled to Prague for five days during the ...