Discouragement colored my husband’s face as he came through the door and dropped the car keys on the hall tree. “I just had a fender bender.” Shocked, I asked the obvious. “Are you all right?” Nothing like this had happened in our forty-three years of marriage. But he’d had a rough Thanksgiving week. His only […]
Thanksgiving Holiday
Story Keepers #7– Thanksgiving in the Wilderness
Though Thanksgiving Day wasn’t recognized as a national holiday until 1864 when President Lincoln declared a day of thanks to be held annually the last Thursday of November, thanksgiving observances were known as early as 1620. Fifty Pilgrims who had survived their first winter paused to express thankfulness after their harvest and celebrated a three-day […]