What's on our minds . . .

  
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
   
   
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