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History Repeating

Thanksgiving eats notoriously last more than one day — raise your hand if you’ll be downing turkey sandwiches for the next week — but the holiday itself lingers at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. Like a veritable Groundhog Day, the tradition repeats on Friday ... and Saturday ... and Sunday. Happily, the late-19th-century activities are worth iterating. Costumed interpreters put dinner on the table á la 1890, with the help of a wood stove in the farmhouse kitchen. Oyster stew, goose, turkey and succotash dishes teach visitors about the history of American Thanksgiving. Just make sure to bypass another bout of tryptophan-induced sleepiness with an open-air wagon ride around the working dairy farm.