Meet the American who made cranberries a Turkey Day tradition, Marcus Urann, farmer with can-do spirit
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Marcus L. Urann turned the hyper-local cranberry into a staple of the Thanksgiving dinner table when he pioneered a way to can the sauce and sell it around the nation.
"When the Pilgrims first set foot on Cape Cod, even before they saw Plymouth Rock, they may have well stepped on the American cranberry," Richard S. Cox and Jacob Walker write in their book, "Massachusetts Cranberry Culture: A History from Bog to Table." "When the Pilgrims first set foot on Cape Cod … they may have well stepped on the American cranberry." "An analysis of the men in my class convinced me that some of our brightest men were in danger of contributing less to society … than their ability justified." — Marcus Urann "There is no evidence the Pilgrims had cranberries at the first Thanksgiving." — Brian Wick "For a fruit that had been marketed almost exclusively as a fresh product, it was a radical proposal to cook and to can." "I felt I could do something for New England. You know, everything in life is what you do for others." — Marcus Urann Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
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