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Didn't Roosevelt want it even earlier than it is now? (I want to say it didn't particularly bump sales when he changed it?) I thought Lincoln picked a late Thursday in November? (And then there was an issue when it fell on the last day of the month iirc).

Yes, going back to edit that in now. I was also surprised how much it varies from state to state.

I have no idea what the harvest dates were back in 1863 when Lincoln picked a date, or the earlier festivals. But I was surprised to learn just now that corn (edit: maize for much of the world), for example, does finish getting harvested a lot later than I thought: from: A Visual Look at...

Christmas Eve for us was always when the whole side of the family could get together, so that's the one we did up. Christmas was just immediate family and might even have had leftovers from the night before still :)

The late-middlish part even. Pulled up his proclamation earlier today in part due to this thread.

A post-apocalyptic game is one of my top choices in general .. but I don't know think so with the restriction of using everything in the PHB, etc... WIth that restriction, I can imagine a Heroic Wuxia+Steampunk mash up being a lot of fun.

I think a lot of them don't wait that long for the last minute Halloween buyers ... :-(

Not a big part of my Thanksgiving, but...

Santa at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and maybe the closest thing to the an official start of the Christmas season in the US?

Plate armor for mice (and some cats). https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622020/mouse-armor-artist-jeff-de-boer