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ISSUE 421 • NOVEMBER 23, 2009 FIRST NATIONAL BANK MONUMENT
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“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? “ -Erma Bombeck
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he turkey is symbolic with Thanksgiving, but would it be if it had replaced the eagle as America’s national bird? Benjamin Franklin really wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States. However, Thomas Jefferson emphatically opposed the idea and campaigned vigorously against it. Rumor has it that Franklin came up with “Tom Turkey” to spite Jefferson. And that’s just a snippetz from Thanksgiving history books.
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On Dec. 11, 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Mass., bringing the first pilgrims to America’s shores. Within about a year, only half of the pilgrims had survived. Those who did were grateful to be alive and decided to give thanks with a community wide feast. Because they taught the pilgrims how to cultivate the land, Gov. William Bradford invited Wampanoag Chief Massasoit to the feast. The chief brought 90 tribesmen, who, along with the pilgrims, celebrated for three days. In 1789, George Washington became the first president to proclaim a National Day of Thanksgiving. In 1817, New York was the first state to make Thanksgiving Day an annual tradition. (The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the Big Apple began in the 1920s.) A magazine editor by the name of Sarah Hale worked feverishly toward naming Thanksgiving a
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A SPECIAL BRAND OF ACCOUNTS national holiday, and Abraham Lincoln announced it as such in his proclamation Oct. 3, 1863. Lincoln also set Thanksgiving Day as the last Thursday of November. To ensure enough time between Thanksgiving and Christmas for holiday shopping, President Franklin Roosevelt also proclaimed the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving. In 1941, Congress declared that from then on Thanksgiving would be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of each November.
AND SO IT GOES – THE FEAST No one is certain about the kind of food the pilgrims brought to their original Thanksgiving celebration, but the “drink” has much in common with modernSnippetz Talks Turkey... Continued on Page 2