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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
You may be wondering what a children’s nursery rhyme has to do with the Thanksgiving holiday tradition. It was the author of that little ditty, Sarah Josepha Hale, who launched a letter-writing campaign to have Thanksgiving declared a national holiday. Finally, in 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving Day official.
Read the rest of Fela Dawson Scott’s Thanksgiving History Post.
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I am thankful for so much in my life and I thank you for reminding me of that fact. Especially my family and wonderful neighbors and great literature. I also learned to play canasta early in life, perhaps I could join the pardoned turkeys.