{"id":541148,"date":"2024-11-28T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=541148"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:34:05","slug":"brooklyn-thanksgiving-history-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/history\/brooklyn-thanksgiving-history-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Delve Into Some Brooklyn Tales of Thanksgivings in the Victorian Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is now a national holiday that evokes tables loaded with food, autumnal colors, and friends and family gathered in celebration. While a day of thanks was often celebrated in the early 19th century, it wasn\u2019t until 1863 that Thanksgiving became an official U.S. holiday. How did Brooklynites celebrate the food-centered holiday over the years? Read a few tales of Brooklyn Thanksgivings below.<\/p>\n

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A Thanksgiving postcard from 1914. Image via New York Public Library<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>

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Thanksgiving in America has always been a rather strange combination of festival, food, and frolic. We watch colorful parades in the morning, stuff ourselves in the afternoon, and then retire to our couches to watch two teams of modern gladiators beat each other silly for the prize of a silver trophy.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> Single Page<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a day of thanks was often celebrated in the early 19th century, it wasn\u2019t until 1863 that Thanksgiving became an official national holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188997,"featured_media":507592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7646],"tags":[5797],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-541148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-thanksgiving"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Delve Into Some Brooklyn Tales of Thanksgivings in the Victorian Era","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/history\/brooklyn-thanksgiving-history-2024\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/history\/brooklyn-thanksgiving-history-2024\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/thanksgiving-turkey-georg-elbert-burr-sketch-smithsonian-american-art-museum.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/thanksgiving-turkey-georg-elbert-burr-sketch-smithsonian-american-art-museum.jpg"},"articleSection":"History","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Susan De Vries"}],"creator":["Susan De Vries"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Brownstoner","logo":""},"keywords":["thanksgiving"],"dateCreated":"2024-11-28T14:30:38Z","datePublished":"2024-11-28T14:30:38Z","dateModified":"2024-11-28T14:30:38Z"},"rendered":"