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From a speech given by Abraham LincolnOctober 3, 1863:

"....I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the theUnited States, and also those who are at sea and those who aresojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursdayof November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficentFather who dwelleth in the heavens."

Bob S. (Not much of a historian)



Chris Dale wrote:

The Thanksgiving holiday wassupposed to be celebrated originally in October (as Canadians do).During the Great Depression it was decided that it should be celebratedin November to get people to spendmoney to stimulate the economy between Halloween and Christmas.

 

Happy Thanksgiving 

 

Perhaps a few lucky individuals canmake a tron out of their mashed potatoes! Shades of Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind :)

 

 

Chris  

 

The trouble withThanksgiving is that it leaves those of us on the other side of thewater utterly bemused. Or maybe it's just me. I'm now trying to thinkof something we celebrate that does the same in reverse. Various bankholidays whose origins are lost in the mists of time? Hogmanay (northof the border)? Mystifies us southerners, so God knows what Americansmake of it.  :-)

 

Andy T.