Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
I looked up some facts about Thanksgiving that some of you might or might not know.
- They do not have an equivalent celebration in the UK. In the words of Erin Hunter/Vicky: "Happy Thanksgiving to my American Clanmates! We
don't have an equivalent celebration here in the UK, which always seems
a shame to me. I envy your pre-Christmas feasting and family
get-together; plus, I love pumpkin pie and that's as rare as...a gentle
word from Yellowfang?...around here."
- We would NOT have Thanksgiving if it wasn't for a woman named Sarah Hale. People started ignoring Thanksgiving, and in the West (oh, this is during the Civil War time) they didn't even know what it was. =( Sarah wrote lots of letters and asked people for help to make Thanksgiving a national holiday! She also wrote the nursery rhyme, "Mary Has A Little Lamb," not that you needed to know. =)Sarah Hale
- In 1939, President Roosevelt proclaimed that Thanksgiving would take place on November 23rd, not November 30th, as a way to spur economic growth and extend the Christmas shopping season. =) via
Happy Thanksgiving!
♥ Purple Pixie
