TURKEY DAY IS COMING SOON!!! ⋆ S & W Cabinets

Get ready because Turkey Day is coming soon!!!

Happy Thanksgiving from S&W Cabinets!!!

From the time of the Founding Fathers, until Abraham Lincoln made it a national holiday in 1863, the date of observing Thanksgiving in the United States has 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. Turkey day is coming soon

On October 31, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a presidential proclamation changing the holiday to the next to last Thursday in November in an effort to boost the economy. The earlier date created an extra seven days for Christmas shopping since at that time retailers never began promoting the Christmas season until after Thanksgiving. But making the proclamation so close to the change wreaked havoc on the holiday schedules of a lot of people and most Americans were not in favor of the change. Some of those who opposed the change dubbed the holiday “Franksgiving” that year.

Thanksgiving table

Some state governors went along with the change while others stuck with the original November 30 date for the holiday, and three states, Colorado, Mississippi, and Texas, observed both dates. The double Thanksgiving continued for two more years, and then on December 26, 1941, Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the official national Thanksgiving Day to the fourth Thursday in November starting in 1942 (there are usually four but sometimes five Thursdays in November, depending on the year).

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