America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration is looking for volunteers to help with the 15th annual celebration. The large weekend celebration consists of two patriotic concerts, grand parade, food festival and harvest festival.

A new float in this year’s Thanksgiving parade will honor the Merchant Marine, civilian merchant ships that carry imports and exports during peacetime and become a naval auxiliary in times of war.

When Shane Murphy was little, he and his father, Joseph, and grandfather, Bill, would board lobster boats out of Plymouth Harbor and spend hours soaking in the fresh sea air. Now Murphy will be part of this year’s America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration as special honorary guest during the Thanksgiving parade.

Everyone in Plymouth knows, and now the rest of the country knows, that Plymouth has one of the best Thanksgiving celebrations in the United States.

Tip a pint of Mayflower brew at the BBC, and the pub will donate $2 to the Plymouth Thanksgiving parade. But better hurry - it only lasts through November.

Thanksgiving, the American holiday, is all about family reunions, football, roasted turkey and pumpkin pie. But it also evokes thoughts of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving.