People who come to this blog, and homeschooled people, often learn from Google or other search engines. The woman who wrote the song “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Sarah Josepha Hale, was homeschooled herself. She made two historic contributions, one was musical and the other was political. She influenced Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday for many years before it was officially recognized. Wikipedia reports that she was from New England where people regularly celebrated Thanksgiving for years before it was was proclaimed as the third national holiday in 1863.
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