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Cornucopia: the symbol of a bounteous harvest
Thanksgiving Day is a HARVEST
festival / day.
Thanksgiving is ONLY celebrated by Canadians and Americans.
Canadians celebrate it on the 2nd
Monday of October.
USA celebrates it on the 4th
Thursday of November.
Since I am not a Canadian, I cannot
speak for Canada.
This page deals with the U.S.A.
history and traditions regarding Thanksgiving.
THERE are two ways of looking at
Thanksgiving.
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The First Thanksgiving |
Modern-day Thanksgiving |
| Date: |
November 1621. |
On November 26, 1941;
Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the U.S.A. And, it
was established by a resolution of Congress that it should fall on
the fourth Thursday of every November. |
| Location: |
Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts |
Entire U.S.A. |
| Celebration: |
Celebrated with thanksgiving for
surviving the first year in the New World (with the help of the
natives). And, of course celebrated for the bountiful first
harvest in the "New World". |
Celebrates a prosperous past year (even
it wasn't prosperous in a financial way). If it wasn't prosperous, you can
celebrate that you still have family, for Thanksgiving is a time
to spend with family feasting and giving thanks for one's
blessings--whatever they are. |
| Foods eaten: |
Wild turkey!
Vegetables most likely included:
onions, beans, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, carrots, peas, and most
likely squash and corn. Note: The natives taught the
pilgrims how to grow squash and corn! |
Turkey
Candied Yams
Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes with turkey gravy
Buttered Squash
Corn
Pumpkin pie and/or apple pie. |
| Sources: |
History
Channel
Smithsonian |
Me. |
HISTORICALLY Thanksgiving was instituted to commemorate the First HARVEST of the
first pilgrims that came from England to escape religious persecution to the "new
world". They gave thanks to God for a bountiful
harvest.
This is Plymouth Rock.
Plymouth Rock still exists. It is where the Pilgrims
landed in 1620. Plymouth, Massachusetts is the second permanent
settlement in the "New World" (America). The first
permanent settlement was Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. It is
interesting and important to note that the Pilgrims never would have
survived without the help of the native inhabitants: The Wampanoag tribe.
Thanksgiving Mandela Effect??? Many
people have memories of Thanksgiving being on the third Thursday of
November. (I don't). But, many people do have that
memory. Of course, Thanksgiving is now on the fourth Thursday in
November. I have a memory that it was on the last Thursday of
November, but if there should be five Thursdays in any given November, it
would occur on the fourth, not the last. But, usually, the fourth
Thursday would be the last Thursday.
ALSO: See my webpage
about Far
Eastern Harvest Festivals .
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