State of Connecticut
BY HIS ExcELLENCY
CHARLES A TEMPLETON
GOVERNOR -
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For nearly three hundred years, in Colony and State, the
people of Connecticut at this season have gathered in church
and household to give thanks for the blessings of the year
and to renew the ties of family and of home.
In accordance with this good custom, founded in pious
gratitude, perpetuated by statute, I designate Thursday
November the twenty-ninth next, as a day of
Uhaukauiuing.
The observance of Thanksgiving Day has from the earliest
times centered about the home. There can be no sound life
of state or nation unless the life of the family be sound. If our
immense and complex national structure is not to disintegrate
by reason of its very greatness, the strength of the material of
its construction must be maintained. -
I therefore urge that this Thanksgiving Day be especially
dedicated to the renewal and preservation of the old bonds of
home life. Though the children of Connecticut be widely
scattered and the stress of present-day existence be severe, on this
great family festival let the hearth-fires blaze with their former
warmth, let them again be the center of brightness, of instruc-
tion, of the homely virtues, of good cheer. And in our
family reunions letus, in these days of peace and plenteousness,
as did our forefathers in their days of hardness, remember
with grateful hearts the Author of our blessings.
Given under my hand and the 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 twenty-three and of the independence of the United States the
one hundred and forty-eighth.
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