First European colonizers thanksgiving. Indigenous peoples celebrate fall harvest with thanksgiving and have done so for thousands and thousands of years.
I know Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea of thanksgiving because he thought it was too religious adjacent.
Washington felt differently and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation, and its 200th anniversary in 1989 is when George H. W. Bush turned the White House turkey handover, running since Truman got the first bird in 1947, into a formal pardon. I wrote up that and a dozen other angles on the turkey here: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways
Based TJ moment.
Bogged down by all the other horrible things he did but at least he made a copy of the bible that cut out all the wizard bullshit.
Yeah, he had his ups and downs; but being anti-religion was a cool
Are those persimons by the turkey?
Looks that way. Makes sense, they’re a fall harvest fruit.
