As we come across various interesting background information on various items such as Holiday origins we will post them here.  Hope you enjoy this eclectic compilation!  Click on the next to each item you wish to read about.    Christmas Origin Candy Cane     The ACLU (and its friends) are losing ground in case after case across America.  Read about it here because you won't hear about it on their web site or in the mainstream media.  The "Friend or Foe" Christmas Campaign to restore Christmas is well under way! Easter Origin     Halloween   Thoughts (by James N. Watkins)     Rhode Island     National Day of Prayer (May 4, 2006) here 2004 Rhode Island Proclamation Original Aquidneck Island (Portsmouth, Middletown and Newport, RI) Charter      Songs Amazing Grace   Thanksgiving President George Washington's first Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789 President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation establishing Thanksgiving as a Holiday     President Abraham Lincoln's Declaration of a National Day of Prayer         Back