Thanksgiving is upon Us

Subject: Thanksgiving is upon Us Thu 15 Nov 2007, 9:04 am

It really always should be thanksgiving-time, shouldn't it? But as we sit down before our bountiful tables with our dear ones during the last week of November, it is 'meet and right' to remember these very early celebrations, which were observed on Texas soil:

http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/thanksgiving/

http://www.texas-ec.org/texascooppower/current_month/system/footnotes.aspx
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Thanksgiving is upon Us Wed 21 Nov 2007, 4:12 pm

Happy Thanksgiving all.

Is anybody else spending time in the kitchen today?

Madelyn

Subject: Re: Thanksgiving is upon Us Wed 21 Nov 2007, 5:01 pm

And a blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours as well, Madelyn sunny

I'm not so kitchen-bound this year as last, since we'll be enjoying the table of my parents. Last year, though, we celebrated here in our new (well, to us, anyway) home and it was very nice Smile

Trees will be pleased to hear that our turkey was scruptious Wink

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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Wrangler Joined : 01 Jul 2007 Posts : 30

In my next to last year of teaching we had a "tamale" Thanksgiving given to our class by two of the mothers. We did talk about some of these first celebrations in the southwest.

How interesting that Texas was one of the first states to have a calendar Thanksgiving and the last state to declare the fourth Thursday in November the official celebration.

Anne