Happy Thanksgiving!

Just In Boston Properties would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! We will be in and out of the office this weekend and we will be accessible via email.

Some fun Thanksgiving facts courtesy of Wikipedia.

· The city of El Paso, Texas claims the first thanksgiving was held in what is now known as the United States, but it was not a harvest celebration. Spaniard Don Juan de Oñate ordered his expedition party to rest and conducted a mass celebration of thanksgiving on April 30, 1598.
· Another article states that the earliest Thanksgiving events were held in the British Colonies, at present day Berkeley Plantation in Virginia in 1619 and at Plymouth in present day Massachusetts in 1621.
· Many workers (78% in 2007) are given both Thanksgiving and the day after as paid holidays.
· Next year Thanksgiving will take place on November 27.
· President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a Federal holiday as a "prayerful day of Thanksgiving" on the last Thursday in November. Since then every U.S. President has always made an official Thanksgiving Proclamation on behalf of the nation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941).

Enjoy!