{"id":2089,"date":"2012-11-02T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2012-11-02T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:25:41","slug":"you-want-to-be-prepared-as-thanksgiving-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/you-want-to-be-prepared-as-thanksgiving-approaches.html","title":{"rendered":"You Want to Be Prepared as Thanksgiving Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that it is November, the holidays will be here before you know it.<\/p>\n

You want to prepare now.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Rose Briggs did. Her hard work set the tone for how Thanksgiving has been celebrated since 1921.<\/p>\n

Rose\u2019s Thanksgiving preparation is just one of the many great stories in GenealogyBank\u2019s online newspaper archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Collage of a newspaper photograph of Rose Briggs and an article about a 1776 Thanksgiving proclamation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rose Thornton Briggs (1893-1981) was always prepared for every Thanksgiving. She made the costumes and saw to the details of the annual \u201cPilgrim March\u201d which was held on \u201cevery Friday in August\u201d starting in 1921. In 1941 she added the tradition of also marching on Thanksgiving Day. Up through 1971 she participated in every one of those marches.<\/p>\n

The Pilgrim March consists of 52 marchers, all in costume\u2014each one representing a different Mayflower passenger that survived that first winter. All of the costumes were designed by Miss Briggs. She researched and prepared the costumes, working to make them as historically accurate as possible.<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank\u2019s newspaper archives let you read about the accomplishments of this energetic woman, who made a lasting contribution and changed the way Thanksgiving is celebrated annually in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The following newspaper article was published in the Boston Herald<\/em> a decade before Rose Briggs passed away.<\/p>\n

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Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 25 November 1971, page 60<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Thanksgiving, let\u2019s remember to also give thanks for Rose Thornton Briggs’ vision, creativity and hard work.<\/p>\n

You can find other great Thanksgiving stories in GenealogyBank\u2019s online newspapers.<\/p>\n

For example, a \u201cThanksgiving proclamation\u201d was published in the New-England Chronicle<\/em> just months after the Declaration of Independence was issued and while the country was at war with England.<\/p>\n

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New-England Chronicle (Boston, Massachusetts), 28 November 1776, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The proclamation ended with the stirring words:<\/p>\n

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New-England Chronicle (Boston, Massachusetts), 28 November 1776, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Now that it is November, the holidays will be here before you know it. You want to prepare now. That\u2019s what Rose Briggs did. Her hard work set the tone for how Thanksgiving has been celebrated since 1921. Rose\u2019s Thanksgiving preparation is just one of the many great stories in GenealogyBank\u2019s online newspaper archives. Rose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[4463,465,443,2635,1067,1074,27,2634,2636,1077,2631,2637,44,451],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-declaration-of-independence","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-ma","tag-marches","tag-massachusetts","tag-mayflower","tag-newspapers","tag-parades","tag-pilgrims","tag-plymouth","tag-rose-briggs","tag-rose-thornton-briggs","tag-thanksgiving","tag-thanksgiving-day"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}