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Thanksgiving: The Fox And The Boy.
Thanksgiving.
A national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceeding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and around the same part of the year in other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well.
Pilgrims and Puritans who emigrated from England in the 1620s and the 1630s carried the tradition of Days Of Fasting and Days Of Thanksgiving with them to New England. The modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is traced to a well recovered 1619 event in Virginia and a sparsely documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present day Massachusetts. The 1619 arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia, concluded with religious celebration as dictated by the group's chater from the London Company, which required "that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned...in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and prepertually kept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God". The 1621 Plymouth feast and Thanksgiving was promoted by a good harvest. The Pilgrims celebrated this with Native Americans, who had helped them get through the previous winter by giving them food in that time of scarcity.
Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as "The First Thanksgiving", including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631. According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the Pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the seige of Leiden in 1574, while they were staying in Leiden. Now called October Fest, Leiden's autumn Thanksgiving celebration in 1617 was the occasion for sectarian disturbance that appears to have accelerated the Pilgrims' plans to emigrate to America.
Later in Massachusetts, religious Thanksgiving services were declared by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford, who planned the colony's Thanksgiving celebration and feast in 1623. In the late 1630s, the Pequot were blamed for the killing of a white man, leading to the colonizers burning down Pequot villages and killing those who did not perish in the fires. Hundreds of Pequots were killed, leading Governor Bradford to proclaim that Thanksgiving from then on would be celebrating "the blood victory, thanking God that the battle had been won". The practicing of holding an annual harvest festival did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1600s.
Thanksgiving proclamations were made mostly by church leaders in New England up until 1682 and then by both state and church leaders until after the American Revolution. During the revolutionary period, political influences affected the issuance of Thanksgiving proclamations. Various proclamations were made by royal governors, and coversely by patriot leaders, such as John Hancock, General Gerorge Washington, and the Continental Congress, each giving thanks to God for events favorable to their causes. As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide Thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26th-1789 "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God".
The question of where the first Thanksgiving was held in the United States has been a subject of dispute, primarily between New England and Virginia. The question is complicated by the concept of Thanksgiving as either a holiday celebration or a religious service. James Baker maintains, "The American holiday's true origin was the New England Calvinist Thanksgiving. Never coupled with a Sabbath meeting, the Puritan observances were special days set aside during the week for thanksgiving and praise in response to God's providence". Baker calls the debate a "tempest in a bean pot" and "marvelous nonsense" based on regional claims. However, the day for Thanksgiving services specifically codified in the founding charter of Berkeley Hundred in 1619 was instrumental in President John F. Kennedy's attempt to strike a compromise between the original claims, by issuing Proclamation 3560 on November 5th-1963, stating "Over three centuries ago, our forefathers in Virginia and Massachusetts, far from home in a lonely wilderness, set aside a time of thanksgiving. On the appointed day, they gave reverent thanks for their safety, for the health of their children, for the fertility of their filds, for the love which bound them together, and for the faith which united them with their God".
Other claims include an earlier religious service by Spanish explorers in Texas at San Elizario in 1598. Historians Robyn Gioia and Michael Gannon of the University of Florida argue that earliest Thanksgiving service in what is now the United States was celebrated by the Spanish community on September 8th-1956, in current Saint Augustine-Florida.
Thanksgiving in the United States has been observed on differing dates. From the time of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln, the date of observence varied from state to state. The final Thursday in November had become the customary date in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 19th century, coinciding with, and eventually susperseding the holiday of Evacuation Day. Modern Thanksgiving was proclaimed for all states in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. Influenced by Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote letters to politicians for approximately 40 years advocating an official holiday, Lincoln set national Thanksgiving by proclamation for the final Thursday in November, explicitly in celebration of the bounties that had continued to fall on the Union and for the military successes in the war, and also explicitly in "humble penitence for our national preverseness and disobedience". Because of the ongoing Civil War, a nation-wide Thanksgiving celebration was not realized until Reconciliation was completed in the 1870s.
On October 31st-1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a presidential proclamation changing the holiday to the next to the last Thursday in November for business reasons. On December 26th-1941, he signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the national Thanksgiving Day of the fourth Thursday in November.
Since 1971, when the American Uniform Monday Act took effect, the American observance of Columbus Day has coincided with the Canadian observance of Thanksgiving.
Tofte, Minnesota.
Tofte was an unicorporated community in Trofte Township, Cook, County, Minnesota, United States.
Tofte was on the North Shore of Lake Superior within the Superior National Forest, 27 miles southwest of the city of Grand Marais and 56 miles nourtheast of the city of Two Harbors. Temperance River State Park, the Gitchi-Gami State Trail, the Superior Hiking Trail, and the Carlton Peak Lookout are all nearby, and the communities of Schroeder and Taconite Habor are immediately southwest of the town.
Minnesota Highway 61 and Cook County Road 2--Sawbill Trail--were two of the main routes in the community.
A post office called Trofte had been in operation since 1897.
Trofte was founded in 1893 by Norwegian settlers--and twin brothers--Andrew and John Trofte, their sister, Torget, and her husband, Hans Engelsen. Trofte takes it's name the Norwegian birthplace of it's founders. They originally named the town "Carlton" for nearby Carlton Peak, but the name was already used by the town of Carlton-Minnesota.
Much of the town was destroyed by a forest fire in 1910, but it was rebuilt.
But this not about Thanksgiving, or it's origin, or the community of Trofte. This is about what befell two families in the town. This is about what occurred in Trofte-Minnesota...during the week of Thanksgiving-2024.
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