November brings gratitude for the summer’s harvest and all that we were able to store for winter consumption. As I pondered America’s Thanksgiving, celebrated every fourth Thursday in November, I wanted to reflect upon the Thanksgiving Proclamations of the past. Governor Bradford’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation
This month, I wanted to explore how our Founding Fathers have influenced our perspective of history through the years. Our first three presidents were men with strengths and weaknesses, excellent capabilities, and flaws. Yet each man gave a gift of Christian leadership which helped shape
Thomas Jefferson is widely known as the author of the Declaration of Independence, extensively admired as the architect of Monticello and the University of Virginia, and surrounded by questionable controversies. Thomas Jefferson’s Formative Years Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at the family’s
John Adams in Childhood John Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on October 30, 1735. As a young man, John Adams desired to follow in his father’s footsteps as a farmer. However, his parents desired for him to be educated. Adams hated school until he
George Washington’s Childhood George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. Washington’s father died when he was eleven years old when he was raised by his half-brother Lawrence. Lawrence taught George how to survey land, and his adjoining neighbors had George survey their vast land