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It being a very small community, Thomas’ dad was pals with the original Pilgrims, and one day when Thomas was a little boy, twenty-some years after their arrival and after the first winter and first Thanksgiving and all that, his dad pointed out to the water’s edge and said, “See that rock? That’s where Myles Standish and all of them first got off the boat.”

Daniel Rogerson from Standish, in Wigan spent a day at Avanti West Coast's training centre to test drive his favourite Pendolino-type trains.

“There’s definitely an integral history between Bike and the gay community,” said the team’s president, Jonathan Standish, who’s also a player.

Essentially, these English settlers “were practicing a Christian Separatist Thanksgiving to express their gratitude for surviving in our homelands” and it was a meal packed with polarizing political leaders, including Captain Myles Standish — the military adviser for Plymouth Colony who had already murdered Indigenous peoples in the area — and Massasoit Ousamequin, the sachem or leader of the Wampanoag confederacy whom, as Lopes explained, is a contentious figure among many Indigenous people who think he “should not have assisted this fledgling group of religious extremists.”

“There was a brief moment in the pandemic, while stores were shuttered and online commerce was soaring, when retailers started to wonder what kind of role the physical store still had to play,” Jill Standish, global retail lead at consulting firm Accenture, wrote in a Forbes column in April.