Thanksgiving is a time for family and friends to come together and count their blessing by sharing an elaborate meal including turkey and pumpkin pie, to watch parades and football games and to get ready to begin their Christmas shopping. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at MiddletownUSA.com

Sarah Josepha Hale, the enormously influential magazine editor and author who waged a tireless campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the mid-19th century, was also the author of the classic nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."