Thanksgiving Holiday

Washminster will be taking an extended Thanksgiving break - and will return on Monday. In the meantime do feel free to explore "Washminster's archives" - posts go back for over four and a half years - and can be accessed through the search facility on the right - or below that by browsing through the Blog Archive.

You might want to visit earlier Thanksgiving postings such as

2009 - The British roots of Thanksgiving
2007 - Pardons and 2010 more on pardons of turkeys

Best wishes

David

Annual Pardoning of a Turkey

Each year the President exercises his power to pardon - Constitution Article II Section 2 "he shall have the power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences againgst the United States". I think we need to know - what was the offence against the US that this turkey was guilty of?

Thanksgiving Day 2009

A Happy Thanksgiving Day to you all!

The traditional 'first Thanksgiving' was held by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1621. One place in England particularly associated with the Pilgrim Fathers is Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. It was here that a separatist church was founded whose members were to be the nucleus of the religious group on the Mayflower. It's a lovely village to visit, not far from Doncaster.


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There are a number of websites about the history of the 'pilgrims' in Scrooby and in the surrounding areas. My favourites are -

The Pilgrim Fathers UK Origins Association - which links to a number of interesting pages and
The Scrooby Village website - which has a number of history articles accessed via the left hand side of the page.