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Governor Wilbur L. Cross Thanksgiving Proclamation

Posted by lynne on November 19, 2007

In 1936, as was the custom, Governor Wilbur L. Cross issued a proclamation declaring a “day of Public Thanksgiving”. His eloquent and poetic proclamation soon became a classic, requested year after year by library patrons.

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