Even as the business-sourced
encroachment of Christmas had all but eclipsed the American holiday of
Thanksgiving in 2013 on account of the day falling so late in November (as if
four weeks were somehow not a long enough time for gift-buying), the on-going
trend (or stampede) of stores opening earlier and earlier on Thanksgiving puts
the holiday itself in the cross-hairs of the retail rifles. Thanksgiving may
one day be essentially extinct, and, ironically, so too might be the usual
suspects--the enterprises themselves.
The full essay is at "Thanksgiving Eclipsed."
The full essay is at "Thanksgiving Eclipsed."
