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Article: People
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2008
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GLOBE SOUTH 1
APPROPRIATE VISITORS ON THANKSGIVING: Plimoth Plantation will be
part of Children's Hospital's Thanksgiving celebration this year in
Boston, thanks to an anonymous donor.
Following a 10-day eBay fund-raising auction held by the living
history museum in Plymouth, a bid of $5,000 won the package offering
two costumed interpreters to go anywhere in the United States for
the holiday. The donor, a Cape Cod businessman, chose Children's
Hospital because one of his children had been seriously ill in the
past and spent a month at the facility. The child is a teen now and
doing fine, plantation officials said. The man said the bid was a
way to "pay it forward," they said.
One of the ...