"....I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens."
Bob S. (Not much of a historian)
Chris Dale wrote:
The Thanksgiving holiday was supposed to be celebrated\ufffdoriginally in October (as Canadians do). During the Great Depression\ufffdit was decided that it should be celebrated in November to get\ufffdpeople to spend money to stimulate the economy between Halloween and Christmas.\ufffdHappy\ufffdThanksgiving\ufffd\ufffdPerhaps a few lucky individuals can make a tron out of their mashed potatoes! Shades of Close Encounters of the Third Kind :)\ufffd\ufffdChris\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe trouble with Thanksgiving is that it leaves those of us on the other side of the water utterly bemused. Or maybe it's just me. I'm now trying to think of something we celebrate that does the same in reverse. Various bank holidays whose origins are lost in the mists of time? Hogmanay (north of the border)? Mystifies us southerners, so God knows what Americans make of it.\ufffd :-)\ufffdAndy T.\ufffd\ufffd