A Time of Homecoming

Journalism

Over the years, newspapers and other vehicles of reporting have found stories of homecoming at Thanksgiving time of interest, and have looked for them and shared them with their readers, listeners, or viewers. This section will present some examples of such stories, from different eras and kinds of media.

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"To All New Englanders" (Horace Greeley, 1846)
Newspaperman Horace Greeley (1811-1872), a New Hampshire native who founded the New York Tribune in 1841, published the following poem in its pages in 1846. Though it's a poem, we include it in this section because it appeared in the pages of an influential organ of the daily press.

Come home to Thanksgiving! Dear children, come home!
From the Northland to the South, from West and the East,
Where'er ye are esting, where'er ye roam,
Come back to this sacred and annual feast.