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Alice In Wonderland's Historic UK House is New Hotspot

February 25, 2011 at 2:46 PM | by | Comments (0)

The King's Speech might be a front-runner for the Best Picture Oscar, but for the UK's Tourism Industry, the most celebrated film of the year is Alice In Wonderland.

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva) in the U.K. recently released a report that shows the Antony stately home in Cornwall saw a surge in tourists, from 25,000 to 100,000 people per year, after the Walt Disney film was shot there.

The site usually attracts an older crowd who want to relax in the home's gardens, but the 18th Century mansion recently had to hire extra staff to handle the mobs of young visitors who wanted to see where Alice lived. The mansion embraced the new visitors and even created Alice-themed events like Mad Hatter tea parties for kids.

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Back Where Thanksgiving Began: Plimouth Plantation

Where: 137 Warren Avenue [map], Plymouth, MA, United States, 02360
November 24, 2009 at 5:49 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you ever wanted to go back to a simpler time of Thanksgiving without the hassle of planes, trains, automobiles and WiFi, say to the time of the very first Thanksgiving, then Plimouth Plantation may be the right place for Thanksgiving 2010. (Or Thursday, if you find yourself in the New England area with no concrete dinner plans.)

The heritage site, where the first Thanksgiving is believed to be held, does Thanksgiving dinner every year. Er, we should call that dinners as there are multiple dining options from a buffet to a Victorian Thanksgiving dinner to an all-day Thanksgiving celebration. But this place is also way more than Thanksgiving dinner. Plimouth Plantation has done its best to recreate the time and living conditions of 1621 when pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving here.

Fortunately, Plimouth doesn't gloss over the lives and stories of the Native Americans that inhabited the land long before English settlers showed up. The Wampanoag Homesite actually tells the story of the English settlers arriving from an Indigenous point of view.

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