A DAY OF THANKSGIVING

Remembering those who guided us to another Thanksgiving Day

“[Our pasts are] blooming and billowing in the imagination … colored and enlivened by so many objects, so many sounds and smells, so many minute moments. … It is wrong to think of them as past…”  — Claire Messud, from  “Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write” For many years, Thanksgiving Day in our family marked a month-long Christmas-Hanukkah celebration. On Thanksgiving morning, and not a day before, the banality of our beige and b…

A DAY OF THANKSGIVING

Philadelphia, Sept. 28th 1863.

CHUCK GRASSLEY: Thanksgiving Day, a day for unity in America

Thanksgiving Day took root in our nation’s history as a “day of public thanksgiving and prayer” when George Washington issued a proclamation in 1789, calling upon freshly minted Americans to celebrate ratification of the Constitution and coalesce around the bounty…