One guaranteed three-day weekend remains in 2025: Labor Day weekend (Aug. 30 - Sept. 1). Memorial Day was May 26 and the ...

The Thanksgiving story most of us hear is about friendship and unity. And that's what Sarah Josepha Hale had on her mind when she sat down to write a letter to President Lincoln in 1863, deep into ...

Story by Bobby Lewis • 13h. B orn out of the Cajun culinary spirit, ... If executed correctly, a turducken will make a ...

Charity at home and overseas is America’s Thanksgiving story. At Thanksgiving in 1947, about 10,000 orphans in Europe each got a big surprise: a food package from America.

Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? The story of Pilgrims and Native Americans sharing a great feast to commemorate their friendship, but that's not entirely true.While Pilgrims celebrated the ...

Native American storyteller Perry Ground, a Turtle Clan member of the Onondaga Nation, starts his "rethinking" of Thanksgiving with a quiz. Ground, who has been telling stories for 25 years in an ...

Hale was so taken with the story of that first Thanksgiving that she lobbied five U.S. presidents to make it a federal holiday. In 1863, ...

Nov. 22—What if everything you think you know about Thanksgiving is wrong? That's the provocative premise behind a book published by Seacoast historian and author J. Dennis Robinson. The book ...