Sarah Josepha Hale was a magazine editor and writer who campaigned for a Thanksgiving holiday.

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Let's say you go home for Thanksgiving break and your grandmother says, "What have you been doing at Yale?"

如果你感恩节假期回家　你奶奶问你，你在耶鲁都学了点什么“

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Many families also bring out their finest table settings the "good china" for Thanksgiving.

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And we usually get at least part of them together for Thanksgiving."

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But there are no official "rules" for a Thanksgiving meal.

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Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgiving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.

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It began with this news: READER: "The Christianized Indians in some parts of Plimouth, have newly appointed a day of Thanksgiving to God for his Mercy in supplying their extreme and pinching Necessities under their late want of Corn, & for His giving them now a prospect of a very Comfortable Harvest.

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