Thanksgiving and how it became a federal Holiday ------

[Clifford Black]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Please read and find the connection between the President and the Holiday.

B.

[Clifford Black]

--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast... As per request from Abe, Mr. Nast created the pictures for what is now the concept of Thanksgiving and how people view Santa Claus

[Clifford Black]

Here we are one more time and there still does not seem to be an interest in "the how" this all came into existence!

B.

[Clifford Black]

study this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation

[Adam White]

I can recall all kinds of "opinions" regarding the Emancipation Proclamation; I can definitely now recall many instances of confusion between it and the Gettysburg Address.

And now for the first time I see that it was an executive order of military authority.

[Adam White]

Sarah Josepha Hale - "The Mother of Thanksgiving"

A few things tell me that Mr. Lincoln's motives were not as pure as those of the Ms. Hale - activist in women's rights and leading author of the movement.

Makes those little kindergarten pageant plays layers and layers of distasteful. I see Mr. Lincoln choosing a "two-birds-one-stone" approach on two MASSIVE public sentiment problems.

[Clifford Black]

Namaska Brother White,

Here is the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale

[Adam White]

I got this link to her book unexpectedly.

https://books.google.com/books?id=16oTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7&sourc...

I have been avoiding google, but this time it was useful.