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Good morning from Collegeville,

Next week we will celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the United States. “In Canada they celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. It is also observed in Liberia, Puerto Rico and on Norfolk Island. In the US, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly traced to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. In the 19th century the final Thursday in November was the customary date, due to the effort of Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote letters to politicians for 40 years. President Lincoln proclaimed the date to be the final Thursday in November . On December 26, 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt changed it to the fourth Thursday, which is not always the last Thursday.”
Source: Wikipedia

Enjoy the day with your family and friends and I hope that you get plenty of pumpkin pie. Minnesota Street Market sells “pie pumpkins” which are different from Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins. Barby and I made a pie from a pumpkin last weekend and it was wonderful. Be sure to add real whipped cream.

The APHC show this week is a live performance from the Wortham Theater Center in Houston, Texas. Special guests include Texas Renaissance man Joe Ely, 21st Century troubadours Johnnyswim and vocalist Christine DiGiallonardo. The Royal Academy of Radio Actors and The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band will also entertain.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”. George Bernard Shaw