{"id":23707,"date":"2025-11-25T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=23707"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:51:34","slug":"thanksgiving-on-goosenest-prairie","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/calendar\/23707-thanksgiving-on-goosenest-prairie\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving on Goosenest Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-tribe_events pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Learn about Abraham Lincoln\u2019s establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday at <strong>Thanksgiving on Goosenest Prairie,<\/strong> produced by the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site and the Lincoln Log Cabin Foundation.\u00a0 This event takes place from 10:00 a.m. &#8211; 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Visit with the Lincoln family as they prepare for a Thanksgiving feast, mid-19th century style!\u00a0 The Goosenest Prairie Gift Shop will be open during the event and features many new holiday items, including many locally-sourced products and a great selection of items handcrafted by talented volunteers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 1789, George Washington became the first president to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation.\u00a0 Thanksgiving remained predominantly a regional holiday until President Abraham Lincoln revived Washington\u2019s earlier tradition and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation during the Civil War in 1863.\u00a0 Since 1864, Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea 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 Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; from Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Proclamation of Thanksgiving, October 3, 1863<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, a gateway site for the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area, was the 1840s home of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s father and stepmother, Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln.\u00a0 It is located eight miles south of Charleston and 14 miles southeast of Mattoon, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this or other events at the site, call 217-345-1845, email info@lincolnlogcabin.org, or visit www.lincolnlogcabin.org.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about Abraham Lincoln\u2019s establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday at Thanksgiving on Goosenest Prairie, produced by the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site and the Lincoln Log Cabin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[40],"class_list":["post-23707","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-community-calendar","cat_community-calendar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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