Posts Tagged: Thanksgiving in the 19th century
To all of my American friends, Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a re-post from one I wrote a few years back, about the similar ways in which Thanksgiving was celebrated a hundred years ago. Food, football, helping those in need…notice that Black Friday is conspicuously missing. Enjoy your holiday, Kathy ————————————————- Check out these snippets of late-19th/early-20th…
We’re another week closer to Thanksgiving! Time for more historical Turkey-Talk. Last week we looked at the surprisingly old-fashioned Thanksgiving tradition of merchandisers peddling anything and everything to the American consumer via sales and giveaways. Click here to check out that post. Today we’re looking at another “old-fashioned” Thanksgiving tradition: football! Yep, even way back in the…
Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we continue our glance back at Thanksgivings past. Last week, we talked about football, and President McKinley’s Thanksgiving proclamation. If you missed it, click here for that post. Today, we’re talking turkey. Here’s a November 25, 1880 New York Times article, which details the abundance for sale – enough to make…
