“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Oberlin College commencement speech, 1965
Thanksgiving Holidays – School is Closed
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 […]