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Date Posted: 08:49:54 11/27/02 Wed
Author: Cindy C
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Happy Thanksgiving To You All!

My 24 lb Turkey has been thawing in the fridge for nearly a week now, and I think it may need some help with the old cold water thawing method by tonight! I have a little baking to do today, and am always excited around the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays.. I just wanted to say that I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your precious families!

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[> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- Jennifer, 10:04:59 11/27/02 Wed

Ditto from me! Don't eat too much!

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[> [> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- Cindy C, 21:15:48 11/27/02 Wed

About the date of thanksgiving being the last Thursday of November.. I caught the tail end of a talk show radio bit today, and the D.J was saying that the President in, I believe the year was 1951,*( I am bad at History ladies..so I forget who was president that year!) had changed that tradition, and made Thanksgiving the week before Christmas.. however.. Merchants around the country were furious, because it messed up their Christmas sales. So, needless to say, this only lasted for that one year, and then, he put the tradition for Thanksgiving back to the Last Thursday of Novemeber. Laura died in 1959, didn't she? So, she would have been alive to see this, and I wonder what she thought about it? I wonder what they would have thought back in Lauras time when she was a child growing up, about the commercialism that we have today around our holidays? I bet they would have been disapointed to know that some of our people of today forget the true meanings of Christmas and Thanksgiving.

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[> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- Ann, 11:45:54 11/27/02 Wed

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to all! BTW, there were many mentions of Christmas in the LHOP books. What about Thanksgiving?

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[> [> Thanksgiving Traditions -- Jennifer, 14:56:20 11/27/02 Wed

I've been surfing around to see if I could find any useful information. The best I can come up with is that maybe they didn't "celebrate" the way we do now. In 1863 Lincoln declared it a National Holiday for the last Thursday in November. Originally it was a day to praise God and fruitful harvests. And when Lincoln declared the holiday it was right after the Civil War and sounds to me like it was to be a day to praise and thank God. So maybe it was just a solemn day to them and therefore they didn't mention it.
By the time Laura wrote the books I am sure the holiday was in full swing which makes me further think they didn't "do" much for it... Any thoughts???

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[> [> [> Re: Thanksgiving Traditions -- Ann, 16:21:13 11/27/02 Wed

Having grown up in New England, I heard about the first Thanksgiving a lot. They were thankful for making it through the first year in the new land, and invited the Indians/Native Americans to celebrate with them, since the Indians played a great part in their survival by giving them advice about planting, etc. It was always portrayed as a celebration, at least as I learned it. But the Pilgrims were not known for being festive, lol, so their idea of a celebration was probably a lot more serious than ours.
I would think since it had been declared a national holiday the Ingalls must have celebrated in some fashion. But, of course, it's not as if their extended family could just pop over for some turkey.

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[> [> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- LisaE, 00:08:55 11/28/02 Thu

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

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[> [> [> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- Anne, 03:10:59 11/28/02 Thu

Happy Thanksgiving to you all in America. I hadn't known before but going by Lisa E's post (who I'm sure is Canadian) I gather that Thanksgiving isn't celebrated in Canada too? PLEASE forgive my ignorance! I had just never thought about it before. To all my US friends - does Thanksgiving mean you get to eat roast turkey now and again at Christmas?? Now I call that lucky!

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[> [> [> To Kangaroo Gal -- Kanadian Kim, 10:25:56 11/28/02 Thu

Yes, we do have Thanksgiving here in Canada, but ours is the second Monday in October. I'm not entirely sure why, but I have always believed it to be that way since our harvest is earlier (although this year the weather is really warm right now and the farmers are out in the fields getting crops off as I write this).

I think the menu is more-or-less the same though: roast turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pies, that kind of thing. My husband and I have ex-pat friends in the States who celebrate both Canadian AND American Thanksgivings. Guess when you're homesick, you'll do anything to alleviate it, including eating turkey three months in a row.

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[> [> [> [> Re: To Kangaroo Gal -- Anne, 21:18:36 11/28/02 Thu

Thanks for clearing that up for me Kim! I think all you people who get to have roast turkey twice not too far apart are pretty lucky!

Ann, at Christmas we have roast turkey and ham as well (yum!) A lot of Australian families have a seafood lunch. BBQ's and picnics and beach gatherings are also popular here at Christmas time because of the hot weather. Personally, I like the traditional big lunch at home with the whole family. I envy people who get to experience a White Christmas. How glorious that must be!!

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[> [> [> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- Ann, 10:57:54 11/28/02 Thu

We have turkey on Thanksgiving, but ham on Christmas. Yum!

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[> [> [> [> Re: Happy Thanksgiving To You All! -- Delores Wiley, 13:29:48 11/28/02 Thu

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We have turkey for both thanksgiving and christmas. And I believe if I remember correctly in some of laura's books right before the christmas chapters there was mention of thanksgiving but she didn't do whole chapters on it like she did christmas.

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