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  • The Duryea Brothers’ Thanksgiving Race

    The Duryea Brothers’ Thanksgiving Race

    By Jacqueline T. Lynch November 26, 2024 Thanksgiving is known for parades and football games, and family feasting.  A car race is not usually what we think of on that day, but it was a novelty on Thanksgiving 1895. The Duryea brothers — Charles and Frank, brought the fledgling automobile industry to Chicopee, but a…