President Donald J. Trump Proclaims Thursday, November 23, 2017, as a National Day of Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING DAY, 2017 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On Thanksgiving Day, as we have for nearly four centuries, Americans give thanks to Almighty God for our abundant […]
Thanksgiving
Past Wyoming AIA President today sent me a photograph taken yesterday of wildlife seen from her window at Nelson’s Architects
Photograph copyright 2015 by Nelson Architects. Permission to publish the view architect Colleen Nelson took yesterday from her office window .Colleen J. Nelson, AIA LEED-AP. NELSON ARCHITECTS, LLC 214 North Broadway P.O. Box 1244 Riverton, WY 82501 307.856.6155 p. [email protected]
Up to their Knees in Cranberries: A critical moment in my career
The date of this cranberry career-enhancing newsletter is 1974, but it might be yesterday and tomorrow. In October 1973, I returned East from San Francisco before there was a Silicon Valley. In San Francisco: I wrote television reviews for the Village Voice. I covered the World Series of rodeo for the Saturday Review. Before San […]
President Harry S Truman’s 1947 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
+++ Yes, it would be helpful to know why I am forever celebrating Thanksgiving. Don’t you think? +++ When I was born Harry Truman was President of the United States. Here is President Truman’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation for 1947 [official proclamation number 2756.] President Harry S Truman‘s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation when I was less than […]
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 27, 2014, as a National Day of Thanksgiving.”
The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, For Immediate Release, November 26, 2014 Presidential Proclamation — Thanksgiving Day, 2014 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION Thanksgiving Day invites us to reflect on the blessings we enjoy and the freedoms we cherish. As we gather with family and friends to take part in this […]
This land is your land…sung on Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday
Preamble and first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution
The Bill Of Rights Ratified December 15, 1791 The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their […]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Thanksgiving Proclamation
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 proclamation declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday. By the President of the United States of America A ProclamationI, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do set aside and appoint Thursday, the thirtieth day of November, 1933, to be a Day of Thanksgiving for all our people. May […]