The Census Celebrates November!
November is best known for celebrating Thanksgiving. But did you know it is also the time to celebrate Geography Awareness Week and Native American Indian Heritage Month. How does all this tie together to the U.S. Census Bureau? Today I received an email bulletin fron the U.S. Census Bureau that covered all these topics and more. See this link here . Some of the fun facts from the bulletin - there are 4 places named Turkey and 5 places named Cranberry in the U.S. FMI see this link here . Facts should not lie, but in this case they do. If you look on the left of that pdf under "A History of Giving Thanks" you will note it focuses on the 1621 Pilgrim event so many people believe is the earliest celebrated in what is now the United States. I find a certain irony of the census bureau getting the date and the location of the first thanksgiving wrong. See my previous blogs here and here . The census bulletin also features American Indian H...