November brings some family and a few other guests to my house for Thanksgiving dinner. I have hosted Thanksgiving for nearly 40 years.
Yes, but not enough to keep us living here after next August 2024. The cost-of-living here is definitely higher than where we use to live. Then again, we live in a "more desirable area" than other areas of Henderson or Las Vegas.
November brings the fragrance of leaves burning in the distance. It brings frosty mornings and warm afternoons. It brings thoughts of family gatherings for Thanksgiving. And turkey. And stuffing. And gravy. And sweet potato pie. And peecan pie. And lots of hugging and kissing. I like November.
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sunsets sterner and Gibraltar lights make the village foreign. November always seems to me the Norway of the year.” — Emily Dickinson
Abraham Lincoln, father of the Thanksgiving holiday "It was Lincoln who issued an 1863 proclamation calling on Americans to "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving," partly to celebrate victories in the then-raging Civil War." ** "He's the father of the whole idea of a nation giving thanks for its advantages and privileges of living in a democracy like this," said Harold Holzer, historian and chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation." Abraham Lincoln is the most interpreted US President. Some say that's because of his violent death, which gilded his image. But it could be because he had a shocking, hard - to - look - away - from appearance. "Writing that the nation's many blessings "should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged" by the American people, Lincoln declared: "I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." "The proclamation served a familiar purpose for Lincoln. "He was always looking for ways to unify the nation in a terrible time of war," biographer Ronald C. White Jr. said." "It took the trauma of the Civil War to make Thanksgiving a formal, annual holiday."
See Video ** "President-Elect Abraham Lincoln stopped at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on the morning of February 22, 1861, and delivered a dramatic speech about upholding the principals on which the nation was founded and to raise a 34-star flag to honor the newest state admitted to the union, Kansas. Mr. Lincoln was portrayed by Fritz Klein in this 150th anniversary event sponsored by the National Parks Service." "