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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] OFF TOPIC (Mellotronic content restored)

From: Bob Snyder <bob.snyder@...>
Date: 2004-11-27

Thanks Chris.

I Love Wikipedia! In case anyone hasn't heard of it, it's a terrificon-line encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to. No entry for asubject you know about? Just write it yourself.

As an example of how cool it is check out their article on the Mellotron.I can't imagine a regular encyclopedia having such an extensivearticle. It even has links to web sites including Streetly, Kean, andAndy T.

Bob S.


Chris Dale wrote:
 Actaullyyes you're right, - it wasn't the October date nor the lastNovember Thursday but rather the second last Thursday. in November.
 
FromWikipedia:
 
 

Ever since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in theUnited States.

In 1939,President Rooseveltdeclared that Thanksgiving would be the penultimate(second to last) Thursday of November rather than the last. With thecountry still in the midst of The GreatDepression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longerperiod to sell goods before Christmas.Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped,would aid bringing the country out of the Depression. At the time, itwas considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas untilafter Thanksgiving. However, Roosevelt's declaration was not mandatory;23 states went along with this recommendation, and 22 did not. Otherstates, like Texas,could not decide and took both weeks as government holidays. Rooseveltpersisted in 1940to celebrate his "Franksgiving," as it was termed. The UnitedStates Congress in 1941 split the differenceand established that the Thanksgiving would occur annually on thefourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday andsometimes the next to last. On November 26 thatyear President Roosevelt signed this bill into US law.

Beginning in 1947, the National TurkeyFederation has presented the President of the United States with onelive turkey and two dressed turkeys. The live turkey is pardoned andlives out the rest of its days on a peaceful farm.

Since 1970a group of Native Americansand others have held a NationalDay of Mourning protest on Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth,Massachusetts.

 see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving formore info if interested.
 
 
Chris
 
-----Original Message -----
From: BobSnyder
Sent:Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject:Re: [Mellotronists] female prog

From a speech given by AbrahamLincoln October 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 individualscan make a tron out of their mashed potatoes! Shades of CloseEncounters of the Third Kind :)
 
 
Chris  
 
The troublewith Thanksgiving is that it leaves those of us on the other side ofthe water utterly bemused. Or maybe it's just me. I'm now trying tothink of something we celebrate that does the same in reverse. Variousbank holidays whose origins are lost in the mists of time? Hogmanay(north of the border)? Mystifies us southerners, so God knows whatAmericans make of it.  :-)
 
Andy T.