If you grew up in Macon, Georgia, the fair was almost like Thanksgiving or Christmas. It was another holiday. The food, the rides. It's just a good time.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

It's nice because Christmas is over and Thanksgiving is over. You've got to have something to look forward to.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Since Thanksgiving and throughout the normally slow holiday period, we experienced unexpectedly strong trading activity and that strength has not yet ebbed,

Thanksgiving weekend spending figures suggest that predictions of another strong online holiday season are on track.