Underground Railroad Museum Presents Thunder & Song
The Underground Railroad Museum is preparing to welcome Civil War author and historian Daniel Dorsch during the Thanksgiving weekend. In his book, Thunder and Song: A Collection of Civil War Poems, Dorsch uses poetry to tell the stories of Civil War soldiers and their families as they faced the trials of war.
Located at 121 E. High Street, Flushing, the museum will be open from noon to 3 pm, Nov. 29. Dorsch’s presentation begins at 1 pm. Admission to the museum is a suggested donation of $10 per person or $20 for a family. The presentation is free to the public, and his book will be available for purchase.
Although Thanksgiving is usually connected to the Puritans of Plymouth Colony in the 1600s, another connection exists between the holiday and the Civil War in the 1800s. President Abraham Lincoln believed the country needed an occasion to bring Americans together for a day of gratitude and unity, and therefore, he established a day of Thanksgiving in 1863.
One-hundred sixty-two years ago, in 1941, Congress passed a law officially designating Thanksgiving Day as the fourth Thursday in November. This year that is November 27.
In Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation he encouraged Americans “in every part of the United States, and also those who are at seas, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens,” according to Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
More information about Lincoln’s proclamation may be found here.
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