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Thanksgiving edition!

~ Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States and the second Monday of October in Canada.

~ The Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621 – the celebration lasted 3 days!

~ The Wampanoag Indians were the ones who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land.  The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, organized the first Thanksgiving Day feast and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians to the celebration.

~ The state of New York officially made Thanksgiving an annual custom in 1817.

~ The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition began in the 1920s

~ Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States, but it was Thomas Jefferson who opposed him. It is believed that Franklin then named the male turkey as ‘tom’ to spite Jefferson.