Thanksgiving Trivia

Here is to turkey roasting, family toasting, count-each-blessing, pass the dressing, jokes and laughter, friends and family, and wish-bone wishes!

·         Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.  

·         In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared it a public holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. 

·         In 1941 Congress passed the official proclamation declaring Thanksgiving as a national holiday. 

·         Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor with a magazine, started a Thanksgiving campaign in 1827 and it was result of her efforts that in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer.

·         Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada.

·         The pilgrims arrived in North America in December 1620.

·         The drink that the Puritans brought with them in the Mayflower was the beer.

·         The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag Indians and lasted three days.   

·         The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition began in 1924 with 400 employees marching off from Convent Avenue and 145th Street in NY.  Originally the parade featured live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo, from camels to elephants. 

·         An estimated 46 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving.  (more than double the amount of turkeys eaten at Christmas)

·         Californians are the largest consumers of turkey in the United States.

·         Turkeys originated in North and Central America.

·         The wild turkey has excellent hearing.

·         A spooked turkey can run at speed up to 20 miles per hour.  A wild turkey can run at speed of up to 25 miles per hour.  A wild turkey can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour.  Domesticated turkeys or the farm-raised turkeys cannot fly.

·         A mature turkey generally has around 3,500 feathers.

·         On average turkeys weigh 16 pounds. 

·         North Carolina is the number one producer of turkeys. It produces around 61 million turkeys per year. Minnesota and Arkansas are second and third number producers of turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Carol Murphy

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