A short week makes for a short newsletter. Enjoy the extra time you would have spent reading the newsletter by thinking of everything you are thankful for!
Do you know the connection between “Mary had a little lamb,” Thanksgiving, and Lincoln, Nebraska? Sarah Josepha Buell, the author of “Mary’s Lamb” as it was originally entitled in her Poems for Our Children (published in 1830), is credited as the person most responsible for making Thanksgiving a national holiday. She wrote letters to five separate presidents across 17 years in the mid-to-late 1800s. She believed that Thanksgiving was as important as the Fourth of July. Therefore, she thought it should be celebrated as a national festival and observed across the entire country rather than just in New England. Abraham Lincoln was persuaded and supported legislation establishing the holiday. Lincoln, Nebraska, was named after Abraham Lincoln as we all know. So, there’s your connection!
Feel free to impress your family and friends this Thursday with that obscure piece of history (courtesy of the History Channel online).