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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…
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…
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…
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The Thanksgiving History You Never Hear

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…
Thanksgiving
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Josiah, His Turkeys and His Sweetheart

(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…