[rollei_list] Re: A Rambling Discourse on Thanksgiving

truly gems of knowledge only on the LUG.
and i love her for it.

-rei

On Nov23 14:54, Marc James Small wrote:
> At 02:40 PM 11/23/2006, Robert Meier wrote:
> >Marc -- Thanksgiving is often the final Thursday in November...
> 
> ..FDR's effort 
> to move it to the next-to-last Thursday led to 23 
> states following his lead, 22 refusing to do so,
> and the other three, including Texas, celebrating 
> two Thanksgivings...

> ... Virginia, to this day, does not celebrate 
> Martin Luther King day on the same basis as does 
> the Federal government but, rather, has added it 
> to the Commonwealth's Lee-Jackson Day, in a 
> rather odd and whimsical mixture of themes which 
> would probably have been viewed with favor by 
> both Lee and Jackson; ....

> Following the "Franksgiving" problems in 1939 and 
> 1940, Congress in 1941 split the difference by 
> passing an Act declaring that the fourth Thursday 
> in November would be celebrated as Thanksgiving 
> Day, an Act signed by FDR on 26 NOV 1941 ...

-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@xxxxxxxxx
Ridgewood, New Jersey

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