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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 270913" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>OK, here we are 2 days after T-Giving and like most folks, still working on those leftovers.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p><p> </p><p>If you talk with most folks, this holiday has about universal support as it serves to pull the core family back together in our fast pace world in which we live and most people are so glad for this special day. But who do we thank? The pilgrims of Plymouth? Even though they get the credit for T-Giving in 1621', it was a Virginia colony at Berkeley Plantation that first had a Thanksgiving celebration on Dec. 4, 1619. This day of Thanksgivng was written into the colony's charter and thus read, </p><p> </p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>In 1622', the settlement suffered an Indian Massacre that killed many settlers and the survivors abadoned Berkely and withdrew down the James River to Jamestown and more secure areas. Of course Plymouth continued and the rest as they say is history.</em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>The real mover and shaker behind a Thanksgiving holiday was actually a woman by the name of Sarah Hale who was a writer and magazine editor. One of Hale's most famous writtings is the children's favorite, Mary Had a Little Lamb. Hale championed the T-Giving idea in 1863' to Lincoln who was the first to set the day as a national holiday. In the grips of the civil war, Lincoln, Hale and others saw the day as a special day for family but also an attempt to connect in a nationalist kinda sense to the nations roots in a time of vast divide. It would also stand to reason that Plymouth was choosen over Virginia for obvious reasons and therefore the holiday was forever linked to the Plymouth colony.</em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Over time and when in national crisis such as wartime, the holiday seems to re-emerge moreso than in times of quiet and peace but none the less the holiday does seem to have a universal love across societal lines. This however came into being more in the latter half of the 20th century and continues. Sarah Hale is an interesting women to say the least and if you love the holiday, don't thank a pilgrim as this practice was fairly common among European protestant Christians and therefore they wouldn't understand something so special that to them seemed downright natural and commonplace. Instead, thank Sarah Hale because without her efforts, the day may have never come to pass in the sense we celebrate it today.</em></p><p><em></em> </p><p><a href="http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html" target="_blank">http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 270913, member: 2189"] OK, here we are 2 days after T-Giving and like most folks, still working on those leftovers.:wink2: If you talk with most folks, this holiday has about universal support as it serves to pull the core family back together in our fast pace world in which we live and most people are so glad for this special day. But who do we thank? The pilgrims of Plymouth? Even though they get the credit for T-Giving in 1621', it was a Virginia colony at Berkeley Plantation that first had a Thanksgiving celebration on Dec. 4, 1619. This day of Thanksgivng was written into the colony's charter and thus read, [I] In 1622', the settlement suffered an Indian Massacre that killed many settlers and the survivors abadoned Berkely and withdrew down the James River to Jamestown and more secure areas. Of course Plymouth continued and the rest as they say is history. The real mover and shaker behind a Thanksgiving holiday was actually a woman by the name of Sarah Hale who was a writer and magazine editor. One of Hale's most famous writtings is the children's favorite, Mary Had a Little Lamb. Hale championed the T-Giving idea in 1863' to Lincoln who was the first to set the day as a national holiday. In the grips of the civil war, Lincoln, Hale and others saw the day as a special day for family but also an attempt to connect in a nationalist kinda sense to the nations roots in a time of vast divide. It would also stand to reason that Plymouth was choosen over Virginia for obvious reasons and therefore the holiday was forever linked to the Plymouth colony. Over time and when in national crisis such as wartime, the holiday seems to re-emerge moreso than in times of quiet and peace but none the less the holiday does seem to have a universal love across societal lines. This however came into being more in the latter half of the 20th century and continues. Sarah Hale is an interesting women to say the least and if you love the holiday, don't thank a pilgrim as this practice was fairly common among European protestant Christians and therefore they wouldn't understand something so special that to them seemed downright natural and commonplace. Instead, thank Sarah Hale because without her efforts, the day may have never come to pass in the sense we celebrate it today. [/I] [URL]http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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