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Counting Our Blessings This Holiday Season Should You Work Out on Thanksgiving Day?
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Keeping Our Children Safe
The Benefits of Positive Relationships
Baked Cornbread and Chorizo Stuffing
Did You Know?
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BLACK FRIDAY AND THANKSGIVING FACTS Did you know that the name “Black Friday,” named for the Friday after Thanksgiving, which kicks off the holiday shopping season with some crazy good deals and some insane shoppers, was coined on Wall Street? The term was first used on Sept. 24, 1869, when two investors, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, caused a stock market crash by driving up the price of gold. It caused foreign trade to cease operation, and the stock market dropped by 20%. The effects of this crash were felt for years to come. In the 1950s and 1960s, police in Philadelphia coined the term “Black Friday” to give a negative connotation to the day when shopaholics went wild shopping for the holidays and caused mayhem and traffic jams. Today, Black Friday has evolved from a more casual day of shopping to a critical event. People wait in lines for hours, earlier and earlier each year, to get sale prices on specialty items. It is considered to be the biggest retail sales day of the year. The shopping frenzy can be fun to participate in but only if everyone is safe while doing so! Did You Know?
Did you know that Thanksgiving was created by our presidents?
In 1621, the first Thanksgiving was held, and it was a three-day harvest festival between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans.
However, in 1789, George Washington issued a proclamation calling for “a day of thanksgiving and prayer” a few years after the American Revolution. Following suit, in 1863, at a celebration for an Army victory at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln asked Americans to acknowledge the last Thursday of November as “a day of Thanksgiving.” Then, in 1870, Congress passed legislation making Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Independence Day national holidays.
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