The Real Reason Why Thanksgiving Is Always on a Thursday
— the fourth Thursday in November — can be a blessing or a curse. Get Friday off as well and it’s the rare four-day weekend; go back to work and it’s just a hassle for travel. But, as it turns out, the earliest Thanksgivings in what’s now the United States had very different timing. Crucially, they weren’t just a once-a-year special event. “The earliest Thanksgivings in the [American] colonies in the 17th century were called for the purpose of giving thanks for a specific blessing,” says Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of and Senior Fellow at ...
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