HOLIDAY HISTORY!

With Thanksgiving just a couple days away, it's time for a little holiday history lesson ...

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Although Thanksgiving celebrations dated back to the first European settlements in America, it was not until the 1860s that Abraham Lincoln declared the last...

TUESDAY TREASURES!

Today's treasures would be fitting on your Thanksgiving Day feast table. These salt and pepper shakers are recent acquisitions, donated as part of a collection of Worthington souvenir items.

Like so many souvenir items such as these, they are not dated. The second photo shows the Worthington paints on the one turkey's tail feathers.

Do you have any items such as these that are always part of your Thanksgiving table decor? ... See more

WHERE AM I? -- THE ANSWER!

Today's mystery photo was the inside of Boote's Hatchery, sometime in the 1930s to 1940s. The photo is undated. Those are incubator rooms on either side of the hallway -- I've included that photo here again so you can get a good look..

Here are also a couple photos of the outside of the hatchery enterprise. The second one is a postcard that is dated 1947; the other photo is also undated but is from about the same era as the inside of the hatchery photo.

Worthington had several such hatchery/creamery/processing plants that made the area a mecca for turkey production, hence the celebration of King Turkey Day in the fall. ... See more