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The 19th Century Thanksgiving

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 22, 2020 at 1:36 PM
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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 do not know how much Thanksgiving was celebrated before it became an …

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Virtual Thanksgiving
Virtual Thanksgiving
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The Virtual Thanksgiving

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 7, 2020 at 11:01 PM
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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 has to go virtual is not the …

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Shop Early for Thanksgiving
Shop Early for Thanksgiving
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Shop Early for Thanksgiving

  • B. Francis Morlan
  • Posted onOct 21, 2020 at 11:53 AM
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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 showing with Thanksgiving now about a month away. Major food distributors in …

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Thanksgiving 2020
Thanksgiving 2020
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Families Carefully Planning Thanksgiving 2020

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onSep 30, 2020 at 10:05 PM
  • 3 Comments
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 are expecting a slightly bigger family gathering and …

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Inconvenient Facts About Thanksgiving

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 27, 2019 at 12:56 PM
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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 stores open on Thanksgiving, debates about how Thanksgiving is taught …

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Problematic Thanksgiving
Problematic Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving? Not a Problem

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 12, 2019 at 11:43 AM
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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 this year: • PETA doesn’t want you eating …

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How Thanksgiving Became Thanksgiving
How Thanksgiving Became Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving

How Thanksgiving Became Thanksgiving

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 11, 2018 at 2:32 AM
  • 1 Comments
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 the making of all that we celebrate of the holiday today. Historians these …

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Finding Christmas in Thanksgiving

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 4, 2018 at 9:30 AM
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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 Christmas is something done every day. In recent years many have insisted that …

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Over the River and Through the Wood

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 21, 2017 at 6:35 PM
  • 1 Comments
“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 intention. It was always, from its title forward, …

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Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie
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Pumpkin Pie Poetry

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 20, 2017 at 9:13 PM
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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 Lake Superior, only deeper, and obliged …

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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 19, 2017 at 5:25 AM
  • 1 Comments
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 a youth, Robinson was a …

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The Thanksgiving History You Never Hear

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 16, 2017 at 9:15 AM
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Modern media is flooded each Thanksgiving with tales of the myths and distortions of America’s most widely celebrated holiday. That is the most amazing thing about Thanksgiving. It is full of ironies and falsehoods and ignored facts. On one extreme you have those who cling to the Charlie Brown version …

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Josiah, His Turkeys and His Sweetheart

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 9, 2017 at 11:00 PM
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(Editor’s Note: This Thanksgiving story was published sometime in the early 19th century. Like A Visit from St. Nicholas it was published as a tradition year after year in many newspapers. We found it in the Boston Traveler from 1836, though we noted it dating back as far as 1824 …

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Thanksgiving Movies
Thanksgiving Movies
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Five Must See Movies Over Thanksgiving Weekend

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 21, 2016 at 9:05 AM
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Thanksgiving represents a lot of traditions in American culture. Some enjoy the parade, others get into the football and some are all about the food. For many, it is a simple day of being together and playing games. Thanksgiving, more than any other holiday, really is a true holiday. Everything …

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Ancient Connections of Thanksgiving and Christmas

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM
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Here is some fodder for your Thanksgiving day discussions around the turkey — which is the more sacred holiday in America, Thanksgiving or Christmas? Check your learning of history at the door. This history of both holidays goes back further than you know — and both are related to each …

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