This is the story telling the history of Thanksgiving. 

"As the colors of autumn stream down the wind, scarlet in sumach and maple, spun gold in the birches, a splendor of smoldering fire in the oaks along the hill, and the last leaves flutter away, and dusk falls briefly about the worker bringing in from the field a late load of its fruit, and Arcturus is lost to sight and Orion swings upward that great sun upon his shoulder, we are stirred once more to ponder the Infinite Goodness that has set apart for us, in all this moving mystery of creation, a time of living and a home. In such a spirit I appoint Thursday, the twenty-fourth of November, a day of public thanksgiving."

So wrote the late Dr Wilbur L Cross, Governor of Connecticut in his famous Thanksgiving proclamation. The governor was following an American tradition of three hundred years standing, and the history of that tradition down the years is the theme of today's Cavalcade drama. This is the history of Thanksgiving. It's a lovely comprehensive story which finishes with the Thanksgiving prayer by Benjamin Franklin.