I just wrote a bit about George Washington's Original Thanksgiving Proclamation on My Catholic Tea Party Hippie Blog here I seem to be posting more over there than here, given the current political climate. It would be nice if y'all could follow me over there :)
Anyway-- reading GW's original Thanksgiving Proclamation is a great tradition.
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Thanksgiving Card, Fall Card, Winter Card
Here's a card I'll be making with the seniors at the Senior Center on November 7th. It's a Thanksgiving card I thought they'd like to make:
Here is a fall birthday card I made a few weeks ago (I'm on a roll posting pictures of cards I've made):
This is one I made for no particular reason-- just a winter themed card:
Here is a fall birthday card I made a few weeks ago (I'm on a roll posting pictures of cards I've made):
This is one I made for no particular reason-- just a winter themed card:
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! In the words of George Washington, I, too, am thankful "for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors he hath been pleased to confer upon us."
Read the full text of George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html
On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving Proclamation for our new country. Congress had issued them prior to the founding of our new nation, but this proclamation of Washington's set aside Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a day of Thanksgiving. Later, on October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation of Thanksgiving setting the last Thursday of November as a national holiday -- a day of Thanksgiving. I don;t think it was a coincidence that Lincoln dated his proclamation the same day as Washington's. Amazing, isn't it?
Read the full text of George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html
On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving Proclamation for our new country. Congress had issued them prior to the founding of our new nation, but this proclamation of Washington's set aside Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a day of Thanksgiving. Later, on October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation of Thanksgiving setting the last Thursday of November as a national holiday -- a day of Thanksgiving. I don;t think it was a coincidence that Lincoln dated his proclamation the same day as Washington's. Amazing, isn't it?
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving surrounded by friends and family. Let us remember the founding of this great nation as we pause to give thanks to God for all of our blessings this Thanksgiving Day. Among all of our blessings, I am thankful that our founders had the faith and courage to pledge to one another their lives, fortunes and sacred honor so that we could enjoy the freedom we have today.
http://www.allabouthistory.org/thanksgiving-history.htm
At the link above you can read the text of George Washington’s Oct 3, 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation and then read below it Abraham Lincoln’s Oct 3, 1863 Proclamation establishing the Last Thursday of Nov as “Thanksgiving Day”
For a great history of Thanksgiving Proclamations, see this link— http://www.hslda.org/docs/hshb/93/hshb9326.asp
It includes the history behind 5 of the first Thanksgiving Proclamations of our new nation-- the first one issued by Congress in 1777 and several others issued by Congress in the 1780s. Many people credit Lincoln with establishing this day, when, in fact, our founding fathers had been proclaiming days of Thanksgiving from the very beginning. They set aside a day of the year for all Americans to Give thanks to God. Lincoln set the current date… but our founding fathers had already been proclaiming Thanksgiving and establishing National Days of Prayer and Thanksgiving from the very beginnings of our Nation. Enjoy reading a bit of the history about Thanksgiving!
I thought it was really kind of neat that in his 1789 Proclamation George Washington set the day of thanks as Thursday, the 26th of November! Do something different at your Thanksgiving table… for the blessing, read the words of George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation as part (or all of) your blessing … I plan on making reading his proclamation a tradition at our house in some way, shape or form.
http://www.allabouthistory.org/thanksgiving-history.htm
At the link above you can read the text of George Washington’s Oct 3, 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation and then read below it Abraham Lincoln’s Oct 3, 1863 Proclamation establishing the Last Thursday of Nov as “Thanksgiving Day”
For a great history of Thanksgiving Proclamations, see this link— http://www.hslda.org/docs/hshb/93/hshb9326.asp
It includes the history behind 5 of the first Thanksgiving Proclamations of our new nation-- the first one issued by Congress in 1777 and several others issued by Congress in the 1780s. Many people credit Lincoln with establishing this day, when, in fact, our founding fathers had been proclaiming days of Thanksgiving from the very beginning. They set aside a day of the year for all Americans to Give thanks to God. Lincoln set the current date… but our founding fathers had already been proclaiming Thanksgiving and establishing National Days of Prayer and Thanksgiving from the very beginnings of our Nation. Enjoy reading a bit of the history about Thanksgiving!
I thought it was really kind of neat that in his 1789 Proclamation George Washington set the day of thanks as Thursday, the 26th of November! Do something different at your Thanksgiving table… for the blessing, read the words of George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation as part (or all of) your blessing … I plan on making reading his proclamation a tradition at our house in some way, shape or form.