THE FREEMAN: Thanksgiving & the State of the Harvest
Keely Covello writes for “The Freeman” on America’s agricultural holiday and the land.
Thanksgiving is America’s one major holiday tied to the land. Writer Sarah Josepha Hale began advocating for its establishment in the mid-1800s, feeling the country was becoming industrialized at a time when two-thirds of Americans still lived on farms.
“For it is the farmer’s toil that feeds us all, let us then rejoice together in the harvest.”
Today, fe…
