tundra public library i initiated and i miss lent out and we are back once again to give you the monthly news from the library bring it right to you into your living room before it gets cold or  segment and our next one is going to be about thanksgiving so this one and especially the next one i have some really cool traditions from other live a lot of berries yes other libraries but today this time i'm going to do just a few from other nations we've talked about that but i thought it was interesting i wanted to bring up a little be kind this seen story about the thanksgiving in its traditions the idea of an annual feast was first proposed by sarah look called thank you sarah that we have in our collection that about sarah and her or her her fight to get thanksgiving day as a holiday  grateful and how she and how she was able to convince i believe it was president lincoln yep that well over it was over a period of forty years she spent two years fighting for  thanksgiving it's a law that's very determined and that's a long time hell sent several letters to governors and presidents her efforts finally paid off in eight hundred sixty three as president lee can blink and proclaimed the last thursday november as a national day of thanksgiving and i have to say like i did i know that we have a lot of holidays and sometimes like some pretty obscure ones pop up and not and no offense to anybody that works for home day father's day it's enough it's about us you know it's always about the kids so anyway just getting kids so anyway we thanksgiving happens to be i love thanksgiving i do i it's my favorite holiday for so many reasons and that the number one reason for me is that it's not so commercialized like i love christmas for the music in the sights and the lights and church in the songs and everything but it's gotten so commercialized i just like that all we have to worry about is eating cooking and eating so every year the u s president this cracks me up do you know i know we pardoned one turkey but this this article that i had  found it's from the free library dot com says the president pardoned two turkeys and it was a tradition tradition started by president george h w bush in one nine hundred eighty nine and continued by his successors which i was surprised when i dollar they are ok ok that's cool ok and then then since last year the two turkeys live out the rest of since last year said the new thing is now now they don't get to go to disneyland like those commercials what do you want to do when they go to disney world or does an insuperable they do that now they live out the rest of their lives at george washington's mount vernon estate and gardens in virginia and i as i read that i think i'd much rather be in disneyland ye savvy twenty four oh i like they said twenty four twenty four we get here it says twenty seven by employees at macy's so somewhere between twenty four and twenty seven we don't know and they borrowed animals from the new york central park zoo stage fest of march with floats balloons entertainers this small parade now a national event televised and draws as many as forty five million voters our viewers  american rolla day so but other put places thanksgiving seems to be is like a holiday that's as american as apple pie or pumpkin pie for that matter but germany it's a religious holiday that often takes place on the first an ancient harvest festival festival rituals i'm not even going to if i couldn't say the german word i'm not going to try to say these japanese words please feel free to come and i will hand you the article the day celebrate that's their way of celebrating the rights of workers and post world war two japan it celebrated with labor organization led festivities and children creating crafts and gifts for local police officers that's nice i feel like that's being thankful for  people that they give of themselves canada that's pretty much the same the united states version day of general thanksgiving to almighty god for the bountiful harvest with which canada has been blessed in that subserve on the second monday in october we could literally travel the world and have like thanksgiving like at different times that really fun it would look like a turkey but it would be and they feast on turkey stuffing mashed potatoes gravy and corn oh vacations and parades are also traditional i like that they cation part yeah grenada liberia the netherlands norfolk island but i learned some make this the last one for many of the pilgrims england was just a layover on the way to america and around forty percent of the adults on the mayflower were coming from the netherlands where they lived and work from sixteen zero nine to sixteen twenty write down these dates because we don't want to get them wrong write them down there will be a quiz afterwards the dutch have claimed influence on several elements of colonial american life from this contact including civil marriages how about this latter back chairs regardless of the people of you know what you might have one and not even know it i didn't go over my head i heard it with my bio on it my mom ears you know you like you they think you're not listening and  i heard that here that they don't they do a non denominational church service on the fourth thursday of november there's no turkey but cookies and coffee are offered there you go so those are some very simple traditions but i also like just bringing up the fact that this woman spent forty years you know sarah hale oh and you know what i almost forgot to mention guess what what she's known for writing this is she said famous yeah i was going to bring a book i couldn't find one of the original with her name on it you know how little nursery rhymes are written again and again and again by which how did it go which nursery rhyme which nursery rhyme character has a suffers from arachnophobia remember we talked about it and i said little miss muffet and little miss muffet was correct and i was so proud of myself that i got it right because there were two great librarian questions and that one a lot a lot of people got but not the last one but i liked it because i you know you have to know arachnophobia you have to know your little mushrooms right all right moving on really did save public broad public television i mean he did it is educational television is the way that it is today because mr rogers he really kind of laid the groundwork for that so we are going to celebrate him  he will not be here say that in spirit and spirit he's everywhere yes any time you see some kind to a neighbor and to a child i feel like that's mr rogers what a legacy yes oh my gosh and what how you know what we're thankful for as a as a city as mr rogers as somebody as a whole we should be thankful for he's calling the best pittsburghers we've you know what a good face for our cities and just one quick little side note did i tell you know you were in here on where your wednesday when say one of my halloween parties one of my programs one of the dads came in and they had their the daughter that was in you know of age in my program and the dad walked kind of craft activities and talking a lot about being a good neighbor what that means and how important that is in our society exactly especially right now exactly so that's me very special night with mr rogers on the eighth h ok now we've got to get this maker monday thing going now this is the age group is like mcmurry elementary so the kids walk over the right wing group ok so this monday and i'm so mad at myself it's this monday maker monday it's at four o'clock right after school they can come and do really cool things with either electronics or just anything that is building it's a self run like they experiment right a play with these things so i have this of this kit for monday which i've done before which they're so much fun but you know what it's so funny because you come up with the ideas for make or my day going to do something really fun and unique that the kids can build and play with and i am more of like very sad that it is also national donut day and i wanted to bring donuts today you know and i know no one is as sad about the fifth there will be yeah let me show you what we're going to make that they're really fun for and i'm going to pick out i'm not going to make it and what he said when they first opened this it's like my husband one time bought me a thing of cracker jacks a cane like  bag over their head so what you do is they're really fun and then they come with like a little more battery motor thing so this gets this it's funny they sent it the whole tooth brush but the tooth brush gets broken off about right here and on the is like this little battery pack and a little switch thing and it just this little piece or be on the table and everybody will have them and you can brace them and you can get them they're running all over the place they're like i don't know yeah i don't know if you can get kind of i don't know it's kind of like zooming in on a book if you can if you can see what they really look like but i ordered the whole kit because i wanted to be able to do them with with as many kids as we could and you can actually i mean if you were really really brilliant and creative and handy you'd be able to just get the the pieces and probably make it yourself but this will make twelve iraq's life is good so ok that it won't be to brush your teeth because you're going to make it into a robot so you're going to hold up and you know i just had this great when you said that it made me think of something really cool ok so what if you do this you do a lot of family engagement with post nine eleven vets so we are having a special event called welcome home celebrating veterans and their families and we're welcoming everyone in the community not just veterans but really we're just trying to get as many people in the community to come out and celebrate our veterans that are in our community as well as just having a nice fun afternoon as a family is so really trying to encourage families to come together to love our family about right so we are going to caricature artists drawing pictures you can have your picture of your family drawn up is a lot of fun we had a caricature done of my brother and i went out and busch gardens and i'm yeah five and back when i was a kid i was super shy and would never smile  really you never believe it today but yes i was very shy but we're also going to have a barbecue food truck there park is giving us some cookies so it's me a really really great event so that's saturday november tenth from noon i've never learned so much of course about the author tim o'brien so until this time we were going to host him the library foundation is hosting author tim o'bri i don't have one of his things here but it's going to be held here at the high school on what do we have on the seven next wednesday as a matter of fact when say the seventh at seven pm tickets are still available they're inexpensive i just bought one today and they're for adults only twenty dollars it's less for veterans and student yeah we actually had anonymous donor donate a certain amount of tickets that veterans could go for free really what i love hearing that and i also love and it's so funny because i have an aunt that watches i don't watch a lot of t v i don't know because we're never you know how busy we are and you know and then if you catch something it's news i'm a sports fan or whatever that this is my favorite i only show i watched i've seen it a couple times but i have you know i don't know and what i have seen it is one it is a wonderful show i've seen the actors interviewed never think well tim o'brien is the resource the consultant for i guess the one the dad was a vietnam a vietnam vet and they're using him right to to pull it all together and make it as real as possible so it is really and so it will be right here in our own backyard and that would be cool to to be able to even talk about that experience i mean he's got books out but it would be fun to talk about the experience of even you know being a consultant for a t v show and how it is a domino is that and that's a huge everybody that's a huge show to be on yet to be on the set and everything so dads to bring the little ones babies to two year olds for a little special evening story time so really good bonding for for the dads and the little ones so that's everyone stayed six thirty for the next couple weeks then we do break for our programs for the holidays which we'll talk about the next episode what a successful program we're going to try we do we try to have some things in the evenings and on the weekends you know for parents that are working in they can't come to our our daily programming and miss patty rocks they love her she's getting a great turnout some nice twenty minute bonding time with your child i absolutely love it it's super cute says it it really well so it's yeah that's my excuse i'm going to watch a disney movie and i have any children i think but this is just so sweet and i love it even all the way through like if you read one of the things that mama lama is cooking is brussel sprouts how bonnie is that yeah pumpkin pie you know is like yeah things to try yeah that's good so maybe kids will start eating brussels sprouts home and that reminds me of something that just a little off track but common read llama llama real quick i saw a thing a good old facebook a picture on facebook or somebody put a bowl with broccoli in it and there was a sign there and they had it sitting on the porch you know it would like for the candy and it said please take just one  like to you know albuquerque you know this exists really well as was patty she was like she was she saying it ok oh this is really cute albuquerque turkey and you have to sing along with like clementine yes so we're going to close out this to jump off your couch and run and grab your copy of albuquerque turkey you two can be the entertainment for thanksgiving dinner and if you feel shy or not up to it please call on mission and are mis