The 28th Original
National Day of Prayer Breakfast
Ballroom A,
Dallas Convention Center
650 S. Griffin St.
Dallas, Texas 75202
Thursday, May 1
7:30 -9:00 a.m.
Valet, Garage & Outdoor Parking available
DART stop: Convention Center
With
Brigadier General
Cecil R. Richardson,
Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C
Tickets $40/Students &
Seniors $30 – Individual and Group Sponsorship levels available.
For tickets and information, please call
214-969-1977 or e-mail
tgs@thanksgiving.org
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Welcome to
Thanks-Giving Square!
tel. 888-305-1205
tgs@thanksgiving.org
Golden Rule Mosaic at the United Nations and at Thanks-Giving Square
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A Gift to the People of the World
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The First Thanksgiving in Texas
While the rest of America has accepted the Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock as the original Thanksgiving celebrants, certain Texas historians have long maintained that the first Thanksgiving took place, not at Plymouth Rock, but in Palo Duro Canyon.
Our Thanksgiving icons would include the Palo Duro Canyon instead of Plymouth Rock. The Texas Indians would be in the history books and we might be eating buffalo instead of turkey every year. If you think leftover turkey is hard to finish, leftover buffalo could last families until the next Thanksgiving :)
Spanish explorer, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was the noted participant of that first Thanksgiving, Texas-style, and it can be argued that Coronado had more to be thankful for than the Pilgrims.
Excerpt from Temple (Texas) Telegram, Nov. 26, 1998 and Nov. 27, 2003
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