Seventy-five years ago, Connecticut Gov. Wilbur Cross recorded his Thanksgiving Proclamation in the first sound film ever made by a governor of the state.  Cross, a Democrat, grew up in the farming community of Mansfield and went on to become professor of English at Yale, editor of the Yale Review and dean of the Yale Graduate School — whereupon, at the age of 68, he ran for governor of the state and was elected to four 2-year terms. I doubt there’s ever been a Thanksgiving Proclamation like this one, available courtesy of the Connecticut State Library.