Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Museum Notes November 20th

History tells us that our Thanksgiving celebrations started at the same time as the birth of our nation. Since that time Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving amid wars, famine, moon launches, demonstrations, football games, national elections etc.

Mindful of the events and years that have passed I want to pass on parts of a Thanksgiving proclamation that Theodore Roosevelt made:

“If this nation is properly to fulfill its great mission and to accomplish all that we so ardently hope and desire, the things of the body are good, the things of the intellect are better, but best of all are the things of the soul; for in the nation as in the individual, in the long, run, it is the character that counts. Let us therefore as a people set our face resolutely against evil, and with broad charity and good will toward all men but with unflinching determination to smile down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and private life.”

Roosevelt proclaimed these words in 1908.

The PC Museum hosts many historic papers and items please join us Monday-Saturday 10-5.