by Stella May
In a little over a week, we in the United States will enjoy our Thanksgiving feasts with family and friends. It is a federal holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Outside the United States and sometimes called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name along with related festivities in other regions. The modern national celebration dates to 1863 and has been linked to the Pilgrims 1621 harvest festival since the late 19th century. As the name implies, the theme of the holiday generally revolves around giving thanks with the centerpiece of most celebrations being a Thanksgiving dinner.
Documented Thanksgiving services in the United
States were conducted as early as the 16th century by the Spaniards and
the French. In those days Thanksgiving was observed through church
services and feasting. Historian Michael
Gannon claimed St. Augustine, Florida, was founded with a shared Thanksgiving
meal on September 8, 1565.
In both Canada and America, family and friends gather
for a special dinner and other celebrations on Thanksgiving.
Traditional fare in the US includes turkey, cranberries, and pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks. In my
family, it's tradition to go around the group and share thanks or toast to
gratitude during the meal or dessert. The day offers the perfect time to look
back at the past year and celebrate what you're thankful for with family and
friends.
From my family to yours, we wish you the
happiness of good friends, the joy of happy family, and the wonder of the
holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
Stella
Here is a peek at book one of Stella’s time travel romance series for your reading pleasure.
Nika Morris’s sixth sense has helped build a successful business, lovingly restoring and reselling historic homes on Florida’s Amelia Island. But there’s one forlorn, neglected relic that’s pulled at her from the moment she saw it. The century-old Coleman house.
Quite unexpectedly, the house is handed to her on a silver platter—along with a mysterious letter, postmarked 1909, yet addressed personally to Nika. Its cryptic message: Find the key. You know where it is. Hurry, for goodness sake!
The message triggers an irresistible drive to find that key. When she does, one twist in an old grandfather clock throws her back in time, straight into the arms of deliciously, devilishly handsome Elijah Coleman.
Swept up in a journey of a lifetime, Nika finds herself falling in love with Eli—and with the family and friends that inhabit a time not even her vivid imagination could have conjured. But in one desperate moment of homesickness, she makes a decision that will not only alter the course of more than one life, but break her heart.
’Til Time Do Us Part is available in Kindle and Paperback at AMAZON.
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