For Some, Thanksgiving Is a Day of Mourning
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instagram: @bhsinsight www.insightbhs.com @BHSInsight insight Volume 56, No. 2 Barnstable High School, Hyannis, MA, 02601 November 2019 For Some, Thanksgiving is Parade & Pep Rally a Day of Mourning Bring School Spirit Stephanie Stiles Main Street to reignite the fallen Staff Writer tradition. This year the QBC is prepared with a contingency plan for poor weather, according to Once upon a time BHS QBC Vice President of Events, showed school spirit through Cathy Demanche. an in-school pep rally and a The whole parade is Thanksgiving parade. Then, just over half a mile but will be both events lost momentum: the roughly an hour long and “then at parade due to three consecutive 1 p.m. there is going to be a pep cancellations from poor weather rally on the Hyannis Green,” said and the pep rally due to a lack of Demanche. attendance. After multiple years Demanche explained of declining school spirit, the two how the parade will start at the traditions have made a comeback Cape Cod RTA at the beginning for this Thanksgiving to bring life of Main Street and the parade back to the high school. route will go down Main Street, The Thanksgiving take a left onto High School parade is run by the football team’s Road, then a left on South Street, booster club, the Quarterback and end in the back parking lot Club (QBC), which will be near the Town Hall where they putting on another Red Raider will then head over to the Green Rolling Rally on Wednesday, for the rally. photo by Margo Silliman Nov. 27, at noon on Hyannis Schinnecock Native Andrew Smith burns out the inside of a pine tree as a demonstration at Plimoth continued on page 5 Plantation of how Native Americans built canoes. By Margo Silliman Day of Mourning for many since it included kidnappings and Will the Mall Ever Staff Writer indigenous tribes mostly in New disease brought from Europe. England, but also nationwide. She “He instead would not now tries to make it to Plymouth censor his remarks and he went to Finish Renovating? Growing up only miles every Thanksgiving where the the top of Cole’s Hill in Plymouth By Nicholas 140,000. The store itself includes away from Plymouth Rock, United American Indians of and gathered there with a group Barnstable’s Thanksgiving Kallipolites a Starbucks to the left of the main New England organizes a protest of Native people to whom he entrance, a mini CVS, a grocery education has always had a against the treatment of Native gave the speech in its entirety, Staff Writer special element to it. Our mascot section, and has all the items any Americans, which was born uncensored,” said Peters. “That’s other Target would stock. is a Wampanoag and many not necessarily from the first how the original National Day of In April, Insight reported students went on some kind of Adjacent to Target, Thanksgiving, but from an event Mourning came to be.” that the Cape Cod Mall was a Dick’s Sporting Goods is currently an elementary school field trip to in 1970. Peters said the “wasteland” because multiple Plimoth Plantation. under heavy construction. The “It’s a day that we traditional view of Thanksgiving large businesses had left the entire area is closed off to the Although Puritan culture acknowledge the sacrifices of our is “based on a lot of mythology,” mall and perpetual construction has died out for the most part, no public, with only a sliver of the ancestors,” said Peters regarding talking about a peaceful meal plagued the exterior. Students had parking lot open for traffic to flow more eight hour days at church Thanksgiving. Though she treats where Wamponoags and Pilgrims said that they primarily shopped or witch hunts, the Wampanoag through. Dick’s is confirmed to Thanksgiving as a day to gather broke bread. online because of the mall’s open in July of 2020 according tribe is still very much active, with family, she does so in a way “It really serves to condition. Now, seven months with tribal land designated in to the Cape Cod Mall website, that honors her ancestors. marginalize and mask the later, the mall is bustling with the For now, it’s just another massive Mashpee. And while our history According to Peters, relationship between the renovation of Not Your Average classes may have delved deeply hole in the mall’s storefront. 1970 was the 350th anniversary Wamponoag and the Pilgrims,” Joes, Planet Fitness, Five Guys, Still on the north side of into the heritage of indigenous of the Mayflower’s arrival at said Peters. and the opening of Target. Americans, we’re not often the mall, Five Guys, Visionworks, Plymouth and the Commonwealth The Wampanoag Target officially opened and Chipotle Mexican Grill have educated about their current of Massachusetts organized a Homesite at Plimoth Plantation its doors on Oct. 15 for the standings in society. now relocated beside the Barnes celebration of the successful is comprised of a few historical holiday season. According to and Noble with an updated Paula Peters, an collaboration between the houses and tools, with indigenous the Cape Cod Times, the store individual scholar of Wampanoag facade. This is the first of many Wampanoags and the English Americans in traditional attire is considered “small-format” portions of the mall that are history, has been a part of ancestors. The Wampanoag chief, who can answer questions because it’s only 80,000 square the community her whole Frank James, was asked to speak, about the Wampanoag tribe. feet compared to the typical continued on page 6 life. According to Peters, but the organizers asked him continued on page 8 and 9 Thanksgiving is seen as a National to cut out pieces of his speech Inside this issue... Mi Pueblo Review 2000’s Recap Committed Students photo by Nicholas Kallipolites The Cape Cod Mall’s new Target is located where Sears used to Page 7 Page 7 Page 12 be. It includes a Starbucks and a CVS pharmacy. 2 editorial Insight Gives Thanks Living on SchoolSchool Custodians Cape Cod CounselorsCounselors Security Rec Center Class Choice Murals and Water Variety Creativity Fountains With Thanksgiving up a reusable water bottle. We coach or the teammates who roster on step up day. Guidance sport shops. We are grateful to approaching, taking a few are lucky to have three water soon become our best friends, counselors, you are our rock at have this building so close to minutes out of your day to filters—one at each cafeteria school wouldn’t be the same. BHS. us where anybody is welcome think of things you’re grateful and one in the athletic hallway. Thank you, coaches, for to use its features. Without it, for can be very beneficial. This helps limit the amount of always putting in your extra Free and Reduced Lunch many of our sports players According to Harvard Health, plastic around our community, efforts to make sure we strive would have to travel far to find people who wrote about things and saves us $1 anytime we to be our best, and always The free and reduced one like ours. they were grateful for were get thirsty. We are fortunate pushing us to get there. And, lunch option is so helpful to more optimistic, improved to have such a handy device teammates, thanks for acting those who qualify. Not only Tight-knit community relationships with others, were around our school, because not as second siblings. do you get lunch for either motivated to work harder, many other public buildings a reduced price or for free, it Barnstable’s tight- and felt better about their around our community do. Murals and Creativity includes free SAT and ACT knit community feels like a big lives. Insight thought of a waivers, and free college family—most places you go, few things around our school Custodians Get off your phone application waivers. This gives you can easily spot somebody and our community for which in the hallways and look in students the opportunity to you’ve met before. From we’re grateful. Happy Turkey Custodians—we front of you! The murals we plan out their futures without village activities such as strolls, Day from us, and remember, appreciate you for putting up have painted by students and having to worry about cost parades, and fundraisers, to gratitude can go a long way. with our childish ways in the teachers are beautiful and restricting them. Also, we even our own BHS community, cafeterias, our messiness in the something to appreciate on appreciate you, lunch staff, for like our clubs, honor societies, Class choice variety bathrooms, and our yelling in the dreadful walk to your making our lunch for us every and classes that feel like a the halls. We sometimes take least favorite class of the day. day. family, we’re grateful. Our Although there have your hard work for granted, The creativity around BHS community is something to been different opinions about but we thank you for your hard has skyrocketed in the past Job and Volunteer cherish on such a unique area adding a seventh class, you work day in and day out. We few years, and we are grateful Opportunities like Cape Cod. can’t disagree that it gives us know BHS would be a gross for the wonderful, intricate the opportunity to add more mess without you. artwork done by our students We are grateful for the Living on Cape Cod variety to our schedules. and teachers. Next time you’re amount of job and volunteer Here at BHS, we have many Security in the hallways, take an extra opportunities that are offered Whether you want to unique classes and resources minute to really look at the in our community.