Happy Thanksgiving from Merser Textile Technology

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you're getting ready to enjoy time with family, neighbors, and friends after too many holidays spent apart. You and your family can't wait to celebrate together safely. Enjoy your good time with your family.

 

As far as I know the origin of Thanksgiving, now let's review again.

The farming and harvest festival eventually known as Thanksgiving had its roots in a celebration held by the Puritan Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in the fall of 1621, nearly a year after the landing of the Mayflower. Thanksgiving was for more than two centuries a northern-state affair, celebrated annually at different times in the mid-to-late fall. In the early 1840s, Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of the popular magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, began using her columns to push for nationalizing Thanksgiving and celebrating it on the last Thursday in November. Her writing became more and more impassioned as she witnessed the widening rift over slavery. When division led to civil war, Hale wrote a letter to President Lincoln, emphasizing the urgency of making Thanksgiving “a National and fixed Union Festival” that would offer healing to a torn nation. She told him that by announcing “this union Thanksgiving,” the president could ensure that “the permanency and unity of our Great American Festival of Thanksgiving would be forever secured.”

On October 3, 1863, shortly after receiving Hale’s letter, Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November as the day when God would be thanked “as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People,” including “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.” Lincoln asked for “the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.”

The next year, continuing his effort to forge national unity on northern terms, Lincoln again set the last Thursday in November as the date for Thanksgiving, prompting The New York Times to remark, “The custom of the New England Pilgrims, at first confined to a few states, has at last, in 1864, assumed the scope and standing of a grand national holiday, which it is hoped, will be permanent and universally observed.” The federally authorized Thanksgiving held on the last Thursday in November became a tradition, and Franklin D. Roosevelt established it as an official American holiday in 1941.

That's what Thanksgiving is all about, to thank all of our customers. In the development process of MERSER, you, our esteemed customer, have given us incomparable strength. With your great care and support and the diligent efforts of all our staff, we have made brilliant achievements one after another by virtue of excellent service and good reputation. Every progress and success of MERSER is due to your attention, trust, support and participation. Your understanding and trust is the powerful power of our progress, and your care and support is the inexhaustible source of our growth. In the years to come, we hope to continue to get your care and support, we will continue to provide you with the most sincere service and perfect quality products included blankets, cushions, bedding, towels and outdoor picnic blanket, sleeping bag, tents.

 

Wishing you and your loved ones a happy and safe Thanksgiving! 

Your sincerity,

MerSer Textile

2021-11-25