Thanksgiving Fun
Facts

- Though many competing claims
exist, the most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in
Plymouth Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621. More than 200
years later, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in
November as a national day of thanksgiving.
- Congress finally made Thanksgiving
Day an official national holiday in 1941.
- Sarah Josepha Hale, the enormously
influential magazine editor and author who waged a tireless campaign to
make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the mid-19th century, was also
the author of the classic nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
- In 2001, the U.S.
Postal Service issued a commemorative Thanksgiving stamp. Designed by
the artist Margaret Cusack in a style resembling traditional folk-art
needlework, it depicted a cornucopia overflowing with fruits and
vegetables, under the phrase "We Give Thanks."
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