De Vinck: My Thanksgiving is perpetual

In a letter dated Dec. 6, 1856, the writer Henry David Thoreau said to his friend Harrison Blake, “My thanksgiving is ...

Boston: Thank God for Sarah Josepha Hale, the mother of our Thanksgiving holiday

This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for ...