It's time for another Thanksgiving topic

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@smulder

Thanksgiving clearly has nothing to do with the harvest because the harvest was over months ago

This historian says it’s all about the Civil War:

Heather Cox Richardson

On the surprising (to me) origins of Thanksgiving, with an implied parallel to today’s imperilled republic. November 27, 2019 (Wednesday) Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday. . . but not for the reasons we remember. Everyone generally knows that the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags shared a feast in fall 1621, and that early colonial leaders periodically declared days of thanksgiving when settlers were supposed to give their thanks for continued life and-- with luck-- prosperity. B…