ThanksgivingThanksgiving is the gateway to Christmas. To some that means shopping. To others, it means food. But to many more it means gratitude. That’s what we celebrate.

Come Thou Fount
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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Broken Bow Music

Over the past couple of years we have become rabid fans of Broken Bow Music, who has given us some wonderful new Christmas music that features a signature blend while sharing powerful messages. They have just released their rendition of Come…
Take An Indian to Lunch
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Take an Indian to Lunch

The Thanksgiving tradition of singing Take an Indian to Lunch is alive and well in my house. We sang it as kids, I taught it to my kids and now my grandchildren are learning it. I’m sure this is exactly what the Puritans had in mind when…
The Thanksgiving Song
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The Thanksgiving Song

The Thanksgiving Song is a new release from The Petersens, whose videos of holiday cheer are famous in the Christmas community: The Petersens are a family and they practice what they preach. This song, which celebrates how family enjoys…
The Relentless Encroachment of Thanksgiving on Christmas
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The Relentless Encroachment of Thanksgiving on Christmas

The relentless encroachment of Thanksgiving on Christmas has gotten out of control. It begins in early October and does not let up until late November. The pervasiveness of Thanksgiving is so all-encompassing that hardly anyone puts Christmas…

The 19th Century Thanksgiving

The 19th century Thanksgiving is much like the Christmas celebrated in the 19th century: it is very misunderstood. While most know that Thanksgiving was officially declared a national holiday during the later half of the 19th century they…
Virtual Thanksgiving
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The Virtual Thanksgiving

The Virtual Thanksgiving is nothing new. We have been doing it for years. What makes it different now is that many, many people will have to do it due to restrictions on family gatherings. Without getting into the politics the fact that Thanksgiving…
Shop Early for Thanksgiving
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Shop Early for Thanksgiving

You will need to shop early for Thanksgiving this year. Word got out fast about early Christmas shopping but few know of the problems coming in shopping for Thanksgiving. Significant food shortages on traditional Thanksgiving items are already…
Thanksgiving 2020
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Families Carefully Planning Thanksgiving 2020

Thanksgiving 2020 is going to happen. The annual holidays survey commissioned by MyMerryChristmas.com shows that Thanksgiving has been on the mind of a lot of people nearly all year – and they are not going to skip it. 77 percent of people…
Facts About Thanksgiving

Inconvenient Facts About Thanksgiving

Every year now we seem to find new ways to corrupt Thanksgiving. The facts about Thanksgiving have always been kind of inconvenient. It's true history, meaning and origin has somehow created a state of endless debates. There are debates about…
Problematic Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving? Not a Problem

The media is making a firestorm out of a new holiday outrage some are calling The War on Thanksgiving. Silly as it all seems the rhetoric of politics never has a down season. There are several polarizing modern talking points about Thanksgiving…
How Thanksgiving Became Thanksgiving

How Thanksgiving Became Thanksgiving

Like Christmas, the origins of Thanksgiving are hotly debated. Like Christmas, we can thank stories of Thanksgiving passed down through generations by word of mouth, in letters and documents, period media reports, and great literary works for…
Find Christmas
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Finding Christmas in Thanksgiving

A recent survey revealed sharp divisions in when the celebration of Christmas begins. Nearly a third said Christmas begins right after Halloween, a third said Christmas begins right after Thanksgiving and for another third the celebration of…
Thanksgiving
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Over the River and Through the Wood

“Over the River and through the wood” is a phrase endeared to many that evokes the memory of Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings. Many know it as a poem first, many more know it as a Christmas song. Christmas was never it’s original…
Pumpkin Pie
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Pumpkin Pie Poetry

The Thanksgiving of old America included a serious reverence the people of the 18th and 19th centuries had for pumpkin pie. Said the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger in 1837 “that he should like to be thrown into a pumpkin pie as large as…
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing has become for many an anthem of Thanksgiving -- as close to a Thanksgiving carol as there can be. The song was written in the mid-18th century by a 22-year old theology student. His name was Robert Robinson. As…