CONGRATULATIONS to last month's winner Bob Wheitfield of BJ's Whlosale Club Jacksonville , FL. He won two free tickets to the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs football game on October 30th.

Please be sure to check out www.holmesstamp.com often. We have a new section on the home page called "News and Updates" this is a section of our web page where we like to have some fun! Its updated every day or so and you never know what will be there from the latest news on sports and entertainment, to fun computer games we found on the internet.

Holmes Stamp Company has a huge selection of desk plates, clocks, business card holders, to personalize. They make great gifts.

Interesting holiday facts: Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day, national holiday in the United States commemorating the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation.

In that year Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving, and the feast was shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans. Although similar observances were held locally, they were sporadic and at no set time.

After the American Revolution the first national Thanksgiving Day, proclaimed by George Washington, was Nov. 26, 1789. Abraham Lincoln, urged by Sarah J. Hale, revived the custom in 1863, appointing as the date the last Thursday of November. In 1939, 1940, and 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November. When a contradiction arose between Roosevelt's proclamation and some of those of state governors, Congress passed a joint resolution in 1941 decreeing that Thanksgiving should fall on the fourth Thursday of November. The day is observed by church services and family reunions; the customary turkey dinner is a reminder of the four wild turkeys served at the Pilgrims' first thanksgiving feast.