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A Connecticut Thanksgiving Proclamation
State of Connecticut
By His Excellency Wilbur L. Cross, Governor
Proclamation
Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the twenty-sixth of November, as a day of
Public Thanksgiving
for the blessings that have been our common lot and have placed our beloved State
with the favored regions of earth -- for all the creature comforts: the
yield of the soil that has fed us and the richer yield from labor of every
kind that has sustained our lives -- and for all those things, as dear as
breath to the body, that quicken man's faith in his manhood, that nourish
and strengthen his spirit to do the great work still before him: for the
brotherly word and act; for honor held above price; for steadfast courage
and zeal in the long, long search after truth; for liberty and for justice
freely granted by each to his fellow and so as freely enjoyed; and for the
crowning glory and mercy of peace upon our land; -- that we may humbly take
heart of these blessings as we gather once again with solemn and festive
rites to keep our Harvest Home.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this twelfth day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty six and of the independence of
the United States the one hundred and sixty-first.
Wilbur L. Cross
By His Excellency's Command: C. John Satti, Secretary