Thanksgiving Day in the United States started as a way of giving thanks to food collected from a good harvest or problems that were fixed. It originated in 1621 and was a religious festival, but is now largely secular. It is now a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.
Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday in the United States. It is traditional for families and groups of friends to get together for a large meal. This often consists of a turkey, stuffing, different types of potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy and maize and other seasonal vegetables. The meal also often includes pumpkin pie. Many of these foods are native to the Americas and were not available in Europe at the time of the first settlers. This adds to their symbolism of giving thanks for a good harvest in a new country.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Many football games are played and watching them is a popular activity. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips out of town and to visit friends and family.
Most government offices, businesses, schools and other organizations are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Many offices and businesses allow staff to have a four-day weekend so these offices and businesses also closed on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. Public transit systems do not usually operate on their regular timetables.
Many families and groups of friends get together for Thanksgiving so it is one of the busiest periods for travel. This can cause congestion and overcrowding. Seasonal parades and busy football games can cause disruption to traffic locally. Some states, such as Maine and West Virginia (among others), have an extra day for the Thanksgiving holiday. The following day is known as Thanksgiving Friday in these states.
Background There are claims that the first Thanksgiving Day was held in the city of El Paso, Texas in 1598. Another early event was held in 1619 in the Virginia Colony. Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration that the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast, as is common now.
In the second half of the 1600s, thanksgivings after the harvest became more common and started to become annual events. However, it was celebrated on different days in different communities and in some places there were more than one thanksgiving each year. The celebrations often included prayer and fasting and so were quite different to the modern holiday. George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789.
Since 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States. A more recent tradition started in 1947. Since then, the president has been presented with a live turkey, which he 'pardons'. The turkey then spends the rest of its life peacefully on a farm.
Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration. The European settlers had a massive destructive effect on the Native American peoples and their culture. Each year since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their supporters have staged a protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day.
In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in Novem
Thanksgiving Traditions many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.
Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented by Macy’s department store since 1924, New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest and most famous, attracting some 2 to 3 million spectators along its 2.5-mile route and drawing an enormous television audience. It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate floats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters.
The celebration intimately is related to the first events of the English colonization in the New World. In 1620 a group of Colonising Christians, who later would be met like pilgrims, traveled to America on board the Mayflower boat. They disembarked in the month of November, by the end of the northern autumn, in the coast of Massachusetts (in the coast this of the United States) fulfilling its intentions when establishing the Colony of Plymouth. The rigorous winter in those latitudes took them by surprise, without having time to prepare for hard conditions of deprivation and cold. Of the hundred of pilgrims half of them did not survive. Those obtained that, had it their luck to the aid and foods that the native ones of the zone, the Wampanoag Indians, provided to them. In the autumn of 1621, already settled down and with the first collected harvest, the survivors decided to share their fruits with the Indians who helped them when they did not have resources. The governor of the colony proclaimed " a day to give thanks to the Gentleman so that we pruned of one more a more special way to cheer to us after to have gathered the fruit of ours trabajo". Knowing that they had surpassed so many infortunios, the Pilgrims found a reason to celebrate the survived salary and the lessons that had been taught to them. The majority of people in the United States celebrates this celebration with familiar meetings in their homes where they prepare a banquet. In many houses it is common to offer an oration of thanks. The traditional main plate for dinner is a great turkey roast. This turkey traditionally goes accompanied with a filling done of bread of maize and salvia. After dinner, the favourite diversion is to see American soccers match by the television and others to throw a siesta. The majority of businesses and offices are closed in this day.
Origin of Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving is America's preeminent day. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in the month of November. It has a very interesting history. Its origin can be traced back to the 16th century when the first thanksgiving dinner is said to have taken place.
Journey of Pilgrims The legendary pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the year 1620 in Mayflower-A 17th Century sailing vessel. About 102 people traveled for nearly two months with extreme difficulty. This was so because they were kept in the cargo space of the sailing vessel. No one was allowed to go on the deck due to terrible storms. The pilgrims comforted themselves by singing Psalms- a sacred song.
Arrival in Plymouth The pilgrims reached Plymouth rock on December 11th 1620, after a sea journey of 66 days. Though the original destination was somewhere in the northern part of Virginia, they could not reach the place owing to winds blowing them off course. Nearly46 pilgrims died due to extreme cold in winter. However, in the spring of 1621, Squanto, a native Indian taught the pilgrims to survive by growing food.
Day of Fasting and Prayer In the summer of 1621, owing to severe drought, pilgrims called for a day of fasting and prayer to please God and ask for a bountiful harvest in the coming season. God answered their prayers and it rained at the end of the day. It saved the corn crops.
First Thanksgiving Feast It is said that Pilgrims learnt to grow corn, beans and pumpkins from the Indians, which helped all of them survive . In the autumn of 1621, they held a grand celebration where 90 people were invited including Indians. The grand feast was organized to thank god for his favors. This communal dinner is popularly known as “The first thanksgiving feast”. There is however, no evidence to prove if the dinner actually took place. According to the first hand account written by the leader of the colony, the food included, ducks, geese, venison, fish, berries etc.
The feast continued for three days and was eaten outside due to lack of space. It was not repeated till 1623, which again witnessed a severe drought. Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of thanksgiving in the year 1676. October of 1777 witnessed a time when all the 13 colonies joined in a communal celebration. It also marked the victory over the British.
After a number of events and changes, President Lincoln proclaimed last Thursday in November of thanksgiving in the year 1863. This was due to the continuous efforts of Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor. She wrote a number of articles for the cause.
The practice of naming a day for giving thanks every year is common to cultures all around the world and throughout history. Here in the United States, we often look back to 1621 as the start of our Thanksgiving holiday. 1621 is the year after the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts, where they hoped to practice their faith freely.
Since they arrived in December and it was too late in the year to plant much food, their first winter was rough, and about half of the Puritan settlers died. But in the following fall, the harvest was plentiful because American Indian neighbors had taught the settlers how to plant crops like corn (a new food for the colonists) and how to hunt and fish.
To give thanks for the bounty, the Pilgrims (as they were later called) held a feast. They invited about 90 American Indians, who brought deer meat to add to the three-day celebration.
But the Thanksgiving feast didn’t become a yearly holiday right away. In 1789, President George Washington proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day under the Constitution. Other presidents made similar proclamations afterward, and many states began to set aside their own days of thanks. But it wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln and the victory at Gettysburg that the Presidential thanksgiving proclamation became an annual event.
Today, Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November. Many people take time to visit family and friends who live far away. Many of the foods that are usually served on Thanksgiving Day are similar to those eaten at the Massachusetts feast in 1621. The common food that eat that day is turkey; broiled or baked turkey, this turkey is traditionally accompanied with a filling made of cornbread and sage. Is traditionally served with a jelly or cranberry sauce. Besides vegetable dishes are usually served as green beans, sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes with gravy, a sauce made from the juice of turkey also often served a variety of desserts, pumpkin pie being the most popular. It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple.
Another thing that happen this day it's most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores, malls, restaurants and bars are open. The Friday following the holiday is traditionally the opening of the holiday shopping season. This day is known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer bargain prices and many people go from early morning to the mall.
Thanksgiving Day Most Americans are familiar with the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to insure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees.
The first Thanksgiving service known to be held by Europeans in North America occurred on May 27, 1578 in Newfoundland, although earlier Church-type services were probably held by Spaniards in La Florida. However, for British New England, some historians believe that the Popham Colony in Maine conducted a Thanksgiving service in 1607 . In the same year, Jamestown colonists gave thanks for their safe arrival, and another service was held in 1610 when a supply ship arrived after a harsh winter. Berkley Hundred settlers held a Thanksgiving service in accordance with their charter which stated that the day of their arrival in Virginia should be observed yearly as a day of Thanksgiving, but within a few years an Indian uprising ended further services (Dabney). Thus British colonists held several Thanksgiving services in America before the Pilgrim's celebration in 1621.
The Pilgrims, with a puritanical rejection of public religious display, held a non-religious Thanksgiving feast, aside from saying grace. In fact, they seem to have used the three days for feasting, playing games, and even drinking liquor.
In 1623, the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, held another day of Thanksgiving. As a drought was destroying their crops, colonists prayed and fasted for relief; the rains came a few days later. And not long after, Captain Miles Standish arrived with staples and news that a Dutch supply ship was on its way. Because of all this good fortune, colonists held a day of Thanksgiving and prayer on June 30. This 1623 festival appears to have been the origin of our Thanksgiving Day because it combined a religious and social celebration.
Festivals of Thanksgiving were observed sporadically on a local level for more than 150 years. They tended to be autumn harvest celebrations. But in 1789, Elias Boudinot, Massachusetts, member of the House of Representatives, moved that a day of Thanksgiving be held to thank God for giving the American people the opportunity to create a Constitution to preserve their hard won freedoms. A Congressional Joint Committee approved the motion, and informed President George Washington. On October 3, 1789, the President proclaimed that the people of the United States observe "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer" on Thursday, the 26th of November.
The next three Presidents proclaimed, at most, two days of thanksgiving sometime during their terms of office, either on their own initiative or at the request of a joint Resolution of Congress. One exception was Thomas Jefferson, who believed it was a conflict of church and state to require the American people hold a day of prayer and thanksgiving. President James Madison proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to be held on April 13, 1815, the last such proclamation issued by a President until Abraham Lincoln did so in 1862. Today, Thanksgiving is a time when many families come together, and many churches are open for special services. We have both Native Americans and immigrants to thank for the opportunity to observe a day of thanksgiving.
The Thanksgiving Day is a traditional celebration of North America (except Mexico). In the United States on the fourth Thursday of November, but originally was made last Thursday. In Canada, meanwhile, held the second Monday in October. Is regularly a large family celebration, where people gather with their relatives around the table, performing traditional celebrations.
The party is closely connected with the first events of English colonization in the New World. In 1620 a group of Christian settlers, who later became known as pilgrims traveled to America aboard the Mayflower. Landed in November, in late northern autumn, on the coast of Massachusetts (in the U.S. east coast) to fulfill its purpose in establishing the Plymouth Colony. The harsh winter in these latitudes took them by surprise, without having time to prepare for harsh conditions of deprivation and cold. Of the hundred pilgrims half of them survived. Those who succeeded had the luck to food aid and that the natives of the area, the Wampanoag Indians, were provided.
n the fall of 1621, already established and the first crop to harvest, the survivors decided to share its fruits with the Indians who helped them when they had no resources. The governor of the colony proclaimed "a day of giving thanks to God for us in a special manner rejoice over after collecting the fruits of our labor." President Abraham Lincoln designated the last Thursday of November to commemorate the Day of Thanksgiving. But in 1939, because the Christmas trade and became a popular combination, President Franklin Roosevelt changed the holiday to the fourth Thursday of November to extend the distance between the two public holidays. Congress approved it in 1941. Most people in the United States celebrate this festival with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks. The traditional main dish for dinner is a big roast turkey. This turkey is traditionally accompanied with a filling made of cornbread and sage.
It seems to me very interesting these traditions but does not belong to our country reveals the origin of this tradition as it comes from the ancient settlers from Europe, and now is a time to share with the family along with dishes which is usually a turkey and pumpkin pie as Pastre is something very traditional in that country and is very similar to the Christmas dinner that also make them, but in general is a way of expressing their culture pate.
Paola Alvarez : Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While its pilgrim-origins may have been religious, Thanksgiving has increasingly come to be identified as a secular holiday. Nowadays it often is casually referred to as “Turkey Day”. Even so, Thanksgiving continues to be the day that many Americans set aside for family gatherings and celebration through culinary traditions. It’s a day of pilgrims and forefathers, Native Americans, pumpkin pie, and of course, turkey. But although every school child today knows that the celebration occurs on the “fourth Thursday in November,” Thanksgiving’s current calendar location came only after a long and fitful journey.
Tradition has it that the first Thanksgiving celebration held in America occurred in 1619. According to Virginia.org, on December fourth of that year, thirty-eight English settlers arrived at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia. Their charter stated that they would set aside that day every year and observe it as a day of Thanksgiving.
As the story goes, Captain John Woodlief led the newly-arrived English colonists to a grassy slope along the James River and instructed them to drop to their knees and pray in thanks for a safe arrival to the New World. The 38 men from Berkeley Parish in England vowed:
“Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God.”
The vow can be read carved on a brick gazebo marking the location believed to be where Woodlief knelt beside the James River. Due to the hardships of those days, the celebration turned out to be a fairly short-lived occurrence.
The next recorded Thanksgiving celebration, and more in keeping with today’s modern celebration, occurred in 1621 at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts. There, the Wampanoag Native American tribe, helped the Massachusetts Pilgrims cultivate the land and fish, saving them from starvation. That harvest celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original Thirteen Colonies to later form the United States. The celebration was modeled after harvest festivals that were commonplace in Europe at the time.
(Thanksgiving Day) in the United States, a holiday commemorating the arrival of the first immigrants to Massachusetts looking for a place to practice their religion without problems. It was in this place where tradition says when the first English colony, which, if not for the help of the indigenous population had not come forward, they thanked him. The noble purpose of the day, is an excuse for Americans to gather around the table with family and friends for a great feast that is star turkey and pumpkin pie (Pumpkin pie).
Broadway is the annual big stage dressed in huge balloons Macy 's in which famous moment and reveal where they are concentrated several performances framed in a fabulous parade of spectacular floats through the streets of Manhattan.
The costumes take to the streets as if it were a carnival attire conditioned by the proximity of the freezing Christmas
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest.
In the United States, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada, where the harvest generally ends earlier in the year, the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October, which is observed as Columbus Day or protested as Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States .
Most people recognize the first Thanksgiving as taking place on an unremembered date, sometime in the autumn of 1621, when the Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate the bountiful harvest they reaped following their first winter in North America.
However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast, as is common now.
George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789.
Since 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States. A more recent tradition started in 1947. Since then, the president has been presented with a live turkey, which he 'pardons'. The turkey then spends the rest of its life peacefully on a farm.
Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with a feast shared among friends and family. In both Canada and the United States, it is an important family gathering, and people often travel far distances to be with family members for the celebration. The Thanksgiving holiday is generally a "four-day" weekend in the United States, in which Americans are given the relevant Thursday and Friday off. In Canada, it is a three-day weekend as Thanksgiving falls on a Monday.It is traditional for families and groups of friends to get together for a large meal. This often consists of a turkey, stuffing, different types of potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy and maize and other seasonal vegetables.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Many football games are played and watching them is a popular activity.
There´s so much information about Thanksgiving Day ancient origins, therefore I investigated something about what I think is one of the greatest and fantastic parades of the world, the Thanksgiving Macy´s Parade. I would like to begin with a brief introduction.
Thanksgiving Day, more than any other holiday, holds a special place in the hearts of most North Americans. Thanksgiving Day is an annual, national holiday in the United States and Canada. The holiday can be traced back to a time when the colonists of Plymouth Massachusetts celebrated a successful harvest and thanked God for all the blessings of the past year with feasting and prayers. Though the time-honored meal of turkey and pumpkin pie has become an indigenous part of both countries cultures, each celebrate the holiday at different times.
Thanksgiving Macy´s Parade
Originally known as Macy´s Christmas Parade, the Thanksgivng Parade was started by Macy´s employees in November 1924 and featured animals from the Central Park Zoo.It was such a rousing success that Macy´s declared it would become an annual event. This parade has become a part of american pop culture and a world famous event, for generations has brought families to celebrate the start of a holiday season. The route begins at Central Park West and ends at Herald Square.
In 1927 were introduced the first giant great ballons, they reprented the american´s famous heroes and film characters. The 1927 Parade included helium-filled ballons for the first time. They were released above the city during the grand finale, but unexpectedly burst above Manhattan´s skyline.
In 1928 the helium ballons were redesigned with safety valves allowing them to float for several days. The improved ballons also featured return address labels offering prizes in case any ballons floated away. Those lucky enough to find them could bring them back to Macy´s for a reward.
1942-44. War halts the parade.
World War II brings the Parade to a halt for the first time in its history. Due to rubber and helium shortages, ballons were deflated and detonated to the government, providing 650 pounds of scrap rubber for the war effort.
1969. The first floats.
Their world-renowed creative team, led by Manfred Bass, began building their Parade floats in 1969. To this day, the floats continue to be designed in their Parade Studio, a former Tootsie Roll factory in Hoboken, NJ. The floats stand up to 40 feet tall, but can be folded to make their Parade eve trip to New York City via the Holland Tunnel, whereupon crews toil through the night to reassemble them for the 9am step-off.
Present.
Every years, more than 3 million people line the streets and other 44 million tune into NBC to watch the ballons, floats annd fallons join celebrities, bands and clown crews in the most spectacular holiday celebration in the world. The spirit of that small group of 1924 Macy´s employees lives on today with the participation of more than 4,000 volunteers on the famous 2-mile march through Manhattans streets.
Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While it may have been religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday. It is sometimes casually referred to as Turkey Day. The precise historical origin of the holiday is disputed. Although Americans commonly believe that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, there is some evidence for an earlier harvest celebration by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565. There was also a celebration two years before Plymouth (in 1619) in Virginia. There was a Thanksgiving of sorts in Newfoundland, modern-day Canada in 1578 but it was to celebrate a homecoming instead of the harvest.
Thanksgiving Day is also celebrated in Leiden, in the Netherlands. A different holiday which uses the same name is celebrated at a similar time of year in the island of Grenada. Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, currently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.
Currently, in the United States Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday of October .
Thanksgiving in the United States was observed on various dates throughout history. By the mid 20th century, the final Thursday in November had become the customary day of Thanksgiving in most U.S. states. It was not until December 26, 1941, however, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after pushing two years earlier to move the date earlier to give the country an economic boost, signed a bill into law with Congress, making Thanksgiving a national holiday and settling it to the fourth (but not final) Thursday in November.
Thanksgiving in Canada did not have a fixed date until the late 19th century, at which time it was typically held on November 6. After the end of World War I, Thanksgiving Day and Remembrance Day ceremonies were usually held during the same week. To prevent the two holidays from clashing with one another, in 1957 the Canadian Parliament proclaimed Thanksgiving to be observed on its present date.
Historically, Thanksgiving began as a tradition of celebrating the harvest of the year.
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
Thanksgiving Traditions
Many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.
Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented by Macy’s department store since 1924, New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest and most famous, attracting some 2 to 3 million spectators along its 2.5-mile route and drawing an enormous television audience. It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate floats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters.
Beginning in the mid-20th century and perhaps even earlier, the president of the United States has “pardoned” one or two Thanksgiving turkeys each year, sparing the birds from slaughter and sending them to a farm for retirement. A number of U.S. governors also perform the annual turkey pardoning rit.
For some scholars, the jury is still out on whether the feast at Plymouth really constituted the first Thanksgiving in the United States. Indeed, historians have recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America that predate the Pilgrims’ celebration. In 1565, for instance, the Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilé invited members of the local Timucua tribe to a dinner in St. Augustine, Florida, after holding a mass to thank God for his crew’s safe arrival. On December 4, 1619, when 38 British settlers reached a site known as Berkeley Hundred on the banks of Virginia’s James River, they read a proclamation designating the date as “a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
Some Native Americans and others take issue with how the Thanksgiving story is presented to the American public, and especially to schoolchildren. In their view, the traditional narrative paints a deceptively sunny portrait of relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, masking the long and bloody history of conflict between Native Americans and European settlers that resulted in the deaths of millions. Since 1970, protesters have gathered on the day designated as Thanksgiving at the top of Cole’s Hill, which overlooks Plymouth Rock, to commemorate a “National Day of Mourning.” Similar events are held in other parts of the country.
Thanksgiving's Ancient Origins
Le the American concept of Thanksgiving developed in the colonies of New England, its roots can be traced back to the other side of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists who came over on the Mayflower and the Puritans who arrived soon after brought with them a tradition of providential holidays—days of fasting during difficult or pivotal moments and days of feasting and celebration to thank God in times of plenty.
As an annual celebration of the harvest and its bounty, moreover, Thanksgiving falls under a category of festivals that spans cultures, continents and millennia. In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans feasted and paid tribute to their gods after the fall harvest. Thanksgiving also bears a resemblance to the ancient Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Finally, historians have noted that Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest with feasting and merrymaking long before Europeans set foot on their sho.
Me parece que es una celebración con muchas controversias acerca de sus origenes. Pero pienso que no tiene nada de malo la celebración, ya que se fomenta la convivencia familiar e incluso con las amistades.
I found in news, these publications on Thanksgiving Day:
The 'Thanksgiving Day' Broadway dyed balloons and animated characters
The last Thursday of November is celebrated on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a holiday commemorating the arrival of the first immigrants to Massachusetts looking for a place to practice their religion without problems. It was in this place where tradition says when the first English colony, which, if not for the help of the indigenous population had not come forward, they thanked him. The noble purpose of the day, is an excuse for Americans to gather around the table with family and friends for a great feast that is star turkey and pumpkin pie.
Broadway is the annual big stage dressed in huge balloons Macy 's in which famous moment and reveal where they are concentrated several performances framed in a fabulous parade of spectacular floats through the streets of Manhattan. The costumes take to the streets as if it were a carnival attire conditioned by the proximity of the chilly holiday season. A big attraction for local visitors and this year will not want to miss the actress Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice and Melissa Rivers have also been allowed to see the singers Kanye West, Gladys Knight, Juanes, Jessica Simpson and a beautiful Kylie Minogue. The TV showman Jimmy Fallon (NBC) or the Miss America Rima Fakih also approached.
Besides enjoying this event no doubt, many Americans looked forward to today, Black Friday, the day when most stores are bidding very pleasant to anticipate the Christmas shopping, not for nothing the following Friday Action Thanksgiving represents 30% of sales and purchases made throughout the year in the U.S.. The day turns into a real crazy because all to the items are discounted up to 80%. (See the starting gun of the sales in Florida.) lavanguardia.es
Traders suffer Thanksgiving
Tijuana, BC. DAY Thanksgiving in America represents the beginning of holiday sales, but martyrdom for traders of the border in Mexico to witness the flight of more than 6.000 million dollars annually.
The last Thursday of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day, considered a day to share with family and is characterized by a turkey dinner, but for the commercial world, the next day is packed with buyers shopping in search of deals awaited year.
For some specialists, the so-called black friday is the thermometer indicates, to some extent, consumer confidence during the holiday season.
This business phenomenon means a debacle for the Baja California border trade, which each year shows the flight of thousands of dollars to the United States. Eleconomista.mx
victor meza already had an idea what was Thanksgiving Day, but just thought that was celebrated in the U.S. , But also celebrate it in canada, india, china.
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Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Day , legal holiday in the U.S., first celebrated in early colonial times in New England. The actual origin, however, is probably the harvest festivals that are traditional in many parts of the world Festivals and Feasts. After the first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists in 1621, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Native Americans. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock held their Thanksgiving in 1621 as a three day "thank you" celebration to the leaders of the Wampanoag Indian tribe and their families for teaching them the survival skills they needed to make it in the New World. It was their good fortune that the tradition of the Wampanoags was to treat any visitor to their homes with a share of whatever food the family had, even if supplies were low. It was also an amazing stroke of luck that one of the Wampanoag, Tisquantum or Squanto, had become close friends with a British explorer, John Weymouth, and had learned the Pilgrim's language in his travels to England with Weymouth.
After the first New England Thanksgiving the custom spread throughout the colonies, but each region chose its own date. In 1789 George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed November 26 a day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving day continued to be celebrated in the United States on different days in different states until Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, decided to do something about it. For more than 30 years she wrote letters to the governors and presidents asking them to make Thanksgiving Day a national holiday.
Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln issued a White House proclamation calling on the "whole American people" wherever they lived to unite "with one heart and one voice" in observing a special day of thanksgiving. Setting apart the last Thursday of November for the purpose, the President urged prayers in the churches and in the homes to "implore the interposition of the almighty had to heal the wounds of the nations and to restore it...to full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and union." He also states that they express heartfelt thanks for the "blessing of fruitful fields and healthful skies."
In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt advanced Thanksgiving Day one week. However, since some states used the new date and others the old, it was changed again 2 years later. Thanksgiving Day is now celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. The first formal celebration of Thanksgiving in North America was held by an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who attempted to establish an English settlement on Baffin Island, after failing to discover a northern passage to the Orient in 1576. Canada established the second Monday in October as a national holiday, "a day of general thanksgiving," in 1957.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom. By the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.
On Thanksgiving Day, the most peculiarly American national holiday was first celebrated in 1621 by residents of the Plymouth Colony. These settlers, who later were called Pilgrims left England because they wanted to separate from the established church and worship God in their own way. After leaving England, the Pilgrims settled in Holland in 1608. Finally in 1620 they embarked on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom in the New World. Complete with its original destination was the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, a storm brought them out of their way and arrived in November 1620 north of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The first winter was one of great hardship for the settlers, since more than half the colony died of starvation and disease. However, those who survived continued to fight and spring planted his first crop of corn. Squanto, an Indian warrior, he befriended them and taught the colonists how to plant and cultivate corn, and helped to establish good relations with neighboring Indian tribes. In the fall of 1621, after a good harvest, Governor Bradford proclaimed a "day of giving thanks to God for us in a special way rejoicing after picking the fruit of our work." In a gesture of friendship, the Pilgrims invited the Indians together neighbors to a party, in which they share turkeys and geese, corn, lobster, clams, squash, pumpkins and dried fruits. Due to a poor harvest and problems with the Indians, it was not possible to celebrate Thanksgiving next year. However, in 1623 the Governor Bradford proclaimed July 30 as the Day of Thanksgiving to celebrate the end of a long period of drought. After 1623, the celebration of Thanksgiving was irregular and usually with a regional base. However, in 1789, shortly after the thirteen colonies had come together, President George Washington had an agreement for Congress to hold a national day of "public thanksgiving and prayer." Approved the resolution and 26 November 1789 held the first National Day of Thanksgiving. The proclamation for George Washington urged Americans to give thanks to God for his protection, for victory in the struggle for freedom and for peace and prosperity in the new country. The Thanksgiving Day is a traditional celebration in the United States, which is held every year on the fourth Thursday of November. Usually at the holiday get together around a table family and friends to share a feast. Although its origins are religious, is considered a secular holiday. Most people in the United States celebrate this festival with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks. The traditional main dish for dinner is a great roast turkey or baked. This turkey is traditionally accompanied with a filling made of cornbread and sage. Is traditionally served with a jelly or cranberry sauce.
In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. Thanksgiving Day is a communal celebration marked as a sense of gratitude people feel for all the good things in life. The traditional stuffed turkey adorns every dinner table during the feast.Pumpkin pie, Cranberry sauce, Corns are some of the dishes cooked everywhere to mark the day. The traditional Thanksgiving parade probably started with President Lincoln proclaiming it an official day. The full- dress parade is a way to display the country's military strength and discipline. The main aim of such parades is to lift the spirits of the spectators, provide them with wholesome entertainment. In the present day, parades are accompanied with musical shows and celebrities. It has a very interesting history. Its origin can be traced back to the 16th century when the first thanksgiving dinner is said to have taken place. In the summer of 1621, owing to severe drought, pilgrims called for a day of fasting and prayer to please God and ask for a bountiful harvest in the coming season. God answered their prayers and it rained at the end of the day. It saved the corn crops. It is said that Pilgrims learnt to grow corn, beans and pumpkins from the Indians, which helped all of them survive . In the autumn of 1621, they held a grand celebration where 90 people were invited including Indians. The grand feast was organized to thank god for his favors. This communal dinner is popularly known as “The first thanksgiving feast”. There is however, no evidence to prove if the dinner actually took place.
sorry for the time teacher but i forgot Most stories of Thanksgiving history start with the harvest celebration of the pilgrims and the Native Americans that took place in the autumn of 1621. Although they did have a three-day feast in celebration of a good harvest, and the local natives did participate, this "first thanksgiving" was not a holiday, simply a gathering. There is little evidence that this feast of thanks led directly to our modern Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving can, however, be traced back to 1863 when Pres. Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since.
However, since most school children are taught that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 with the Pilgrims and Indians, let us take a closer look at just what took place leading up to that event, and then what happened in the centuries afterward that finally gave us our modern Thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.
Sincerly i don´t care about this celebration, is not our celebration, so, it´s not important for me or somebody i know, but i have to comment so here is some information i found, like i said i dont care about thanksgiving, but the recipe to cook turkey sound delicious so here is it:
Crockpot Stuffed Turkey Breast
1/4 cup butter, melted 1 small onion, finely chopped 1/2 cup celery, finely chopped 2 1/2 ounces bacon croutons 1 cup chicken broth 1 tablespoon fresh minced parsley 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning 1 whole uncooked turkey breast salt and pepper cheesecloth (24x36") dry white wine
Combine butter, onion, celery, croutons, bouillon, parsley, and poultry seasoning. Cut turkey breast in thick slices, from breastbone to rib cage, leaving slices attached to bone. Sprinkle turkey with salt and pepper. Soak cheesecloth in wine. Set turkey on cheesecloth. Stuff bread mixture into slits of turkey. Fold one end of cheesecloth over other to cover meat. Place on metal rack or trivet in slow-cooking pot.
Cover pot and cook on low for 7 to 9 hours or until tender. Pour additional wine over turkey during cooking. Remove from pot and take cheesecloth off immediately. If browner breast is preferred, remove from pot and brown in 400ºF oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Let stand 10 min. Drippings may be thickened for gravy if desired. Serve each person one or more thick slices of turkey with dressing in between. This recipe designed for 4 1/2 qt or larger slow cooking pot.
Thanksgiving Day celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. Is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While there was an underlying religious element in the original celebration, Thanksgiving today is primarily identified as a secular holiday. The traditional origin of modern Thanksgiving in the United States is generally regarded to be the celebration that occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts, in 1621. The Wampanoag Native Americans helped the pilgrims who arrived in Massachusetts cultivate the land and fish, saving them from starvation. This harvest celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original Thirteen Colonies that later were to become the United States. This Thanksgiving was modeled after harvest festivals that were commonplace in Europe at the time.
Better late than never! Thanksgiving Day in the United States is an annual day of thanks for the blessings of the past year, observed on the fourth Thursday in November in each of the states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It is a historical, national, and religious holiday that began with the Pilgrims. After the survival of their first colony through the bitter winter, and the gathering of the harvest, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony issued a thanksgiving proclamation in the autumn of 1621. This first thanksgiving lasted three days, during which the Pilgrims feasted on wild turkey and venison with their Indian guests.
Days of thanksgiving were celebrated sporadically until, on November 26, 1789, President Washington issued a proclamation of a nation-wide day of thanksgiving. He made it clear that the day should be one of prayer and giving thanks to God. It was to be celebrated by all religious denominations, a circumstance that helped to promote a spirit of common heritage.
Thanksgiving Day in the United States started as a way of giving thanks to food collected from a good harvest or problems that were fixed. It originated in 1621 and was a religious festival, but is now largely secular. It is now a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.
ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day is a federal holiday in the United States.
It is traditional for families and groups of friends to get together for a large meal. This often consists of a turkey, stuffing, different types of potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy and maize and other seasonal vegetables. The meal also often includes pumpkin pie. Many of these foods are native to the Americas and were not available in Europe at the time of the first settlers. This adds to their symbolism of giving thanks for a good harvest in a new country.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Many football games are played and watching them is a popular activity. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips out of town and to visit friends and family.
Most government offices, businesses, schools and other organizations are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Many offices and businesses allow staff to have a four-day weekend so these offices and businesses also closed on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. Public transit systems do not usually operate on their regular timetables.
Many families and groups of friends get together for Thanksgiving so it is one of the busiest periods for travel. This can cause congestion and overcrowding. Seasonal parades and busy football games can cause disruption to traffic locally. Some states, such as Maine and West Virginia (among others), have an extra day for the Thanksgiving holiday. The following day is known as Thanksgiving Friday in these states.
Background
There are claims that the first Thanksgiving Day was held in the city of El Paso, Texas in 1598. Another early event was held in 1619 in the Virginia Colony. Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration that the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast, as is common now.
In the second half of the 1600s, thanksgivings after the harvest became more common and started to become annual events. However, it was celebrated on different days in different communities and in some places there were more than one thanksgiving each year. The celebrations often included prayer and fasting and so were quite different to the modern holiday. George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789.
Since 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States. A more recent tradition started in 1947. Since then, the president has been presented with a live turkey, which he 'pardons'. The turkey then spends the rest of its life peacefully on a farm.
Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration. The European settlers had a massive destructive effect on the Native American peoples and their culture. Each year since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their supporters have staged a protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving Day
ResponderEliminarIn 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in Novem
Thanksgiving Traditions
many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.
Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented by Macy’s department store since 1924, New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest and most famous, attracting some 2 to 3 million spectators along its 2.5-mile route and drawing an enormous television audience. It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate floats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters.
The celebration intimately is related to the first events of the English colonization in the New World. In 1620 a group of Colonising Christians, who later would be met like pilgrims, traveled to America on board the Mayflower boat. They disembarked in the month of November, by the end of the northern autumn, in the coast of Massachusetts (in the coast this of the United States) fulfilling its intentions when establishing the Colony of Plymouth. The rigorous winter in those latitudes took them by surprise, without having time to prepare for hard conditions of deprivation and cold. Of the hundred of pilgrims half of them did not survive. Those obtained that, had it their luck to the aid and foods that the native ones of the zone, the Wampanoag Indians, provided to them.
ResponderEliminarIn the autumn of 1621, already settled down and with the first collected harvest, the survivors decided to share their fruits with the Indians who helped them when they did not have resources. The governor of the colony proclaimed " a day to give thanks to the Gentleman so that we pruned of one more a more special way to cheer to us after to have gathered the fruit of ours trabajo".
Knowing that they had surpassed so many infortunios, the Pilgrims found a reason to celebrate the survived salary and the lessons that had been taught to them.
The majority of people in the United States celebrates this celebration with familiar meetings in their homes where they prepare a banquet. In many houses it is common to offer an oration of thanks. The traditional main plate for dinner is a great turkey roast. This turkey traditionally goes accompanied with a filling done of bread of maize and salvia.
After dinner, the favourite diversion is to see American soccers match by the television and others to throw a siesta. The majority of businesses and offices are closed in this day.
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ResponderEliminarOrigin of Thanksgiving Day
ResponderEliminarThanksgiving is America's preeminent day. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in the month of November. It has a very interesting history. Its origin can be traced back to the 16th century when the first thanksgiving dinner is said to have taken place.
Journey of Pilgrims
The legendary pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the year 1620 in Mayflower-A 17th Century sailing vessel. About 102 people traveled for nearly two months with extreme difficulty. This was so because they were kept in the cargo space of the sailing vessel. No one was allowed to go on the deck due to terrible storms. The pilgrims comforted themselves by singing Psalms- a sacred song.
Arrival in Plymouth
The pilgrims reached Plymouth rock on December 11th 1620, after a sea journey of 66 days. Though the original destination was somewhere in the northern part of Virginia, they could not reach the place owing to winds blowing them off course. Nearly46 pilgrims died due to extreme cold in winter. However, in the spring of 1621, Squanto, a native Indian taught the pilgrims to survive by growing food.
Day of Fasting and Prayer
In the summer of 1621, owing to severe drought, pilgrims called for a day of fasting and prayer to please God and ask for a bountiful harvest in the coming season. God answered their prayers and it rained at the end of the day. It saved the corn crops.
First Thanksgiving Feast
It is said that Pilgrims learnt to grow corn, beans and pumpkins from the Indians, which helped all of them survive . In the autumn of 1621, they held a grand celebration where 90 people were invited including Indians. The grand feast was organized to thank god for his favors. This communal dinner is popularly known as “The first thanksgiving feast”. There is however, no evidence to prove if the dinner actually took place. According to the first hand account written by the leader of the colony, the food included, ducks, geese, venison, fish, berries etc.
The feast continued for three days and was eaten outside due to lack of space. It was not repeated till 1623, which again witnessed a severe drought. Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of thanksgiving in the year 1676. October of 1777 witnessed a time when all the 13 colonies joined in a communal celebration. It also marked the victory over the British.
After a number of events and changes, President Lincoln proclaimed last Thursday in November of thanksgiving in the year 1863. This was due to the continuous efforts of Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor. She wrote a number of articles for the cause.
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The practice of naming a day for giving thanks every year is common to cultures all around the world and throughout history. Here in the United States, we often look back to 1621 as the start of our Thanksgiving holiday. 1621 is the year after the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts, where they hoped to practice their faith freely.
ResponderEliminarSince they arrived in December and it was too late in the year to plant much food, their first winter was rough, and about half of the Puritan settlers died. But in the following fall, the harvest was plentiful because American Indian neighbors had taught the settlers how to plant crops like corn (a new food for the colonists) and how to hunt and fish.
To give thanks for the bounty, the Pilgrims (as they were later called) held a feast. They invited about 90 American Indians, who brought deer meat to add to the three-day celebration.
But the Thanksgiving feast didn’t become a yearly holiday right away. In 1789, President George Washington proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day under the Constitution. Other presidents made similar proclamations afterward, and many states began to set aside their own days of thanks. But it wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln and the victory at Gettysburg that the Presidential thanksgiving proclamation became an annual event.
Today, Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November. Many people take time to visit family and friends who live far away. Many of the foods that are usually served on Thanksgiving Day are similar to those eaten at the Massachusetts feast in 1621. The common food that eat that day is turkey; broiled or baked turkey, this turkey is traditionally accompanied with a filling made of cornbread and sage. Is traditionally served with a jelly or cranberry sauce. Besides vegetable dishes are usually served as green beans, sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes with gravy, a sauce made from the juice of turkey also often served a variety of desserts, pumpkin pie being the most popular. It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple.
Another thing that happen this day it's most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores, malls, restaurants and bars are open. The Friday following the holiday is traditionally the opening of the holiday shopping season. This day is known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer bargain prices and many people go from early morning to the mall.
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ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day
ResponderEliminarMost Americans are familiar with the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to insure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees.
The first Thanksgiving service known to be held by Europeans in North America occurred on May 27, 1578 in Newfoundland, although earlier Church-type services were probably held by Spaniards in La Florida. However, for British New England, some historians believe that the Popham Colony in Maine conducted a Thanksgiving service in 1607 .
In the same year, Jamestown colonists gave thanks for their safe arrival, and another service was held in 1610 when a supply ship arrived after a harsh winter. Berkley Hundred settlers held a Thanksgiving service in accordance with their charter which stated that the day of their arrival in Virginia should be observed yearly as a day of Thanksgiving, but within a few years an Indian uprising ended further services (Dabney). Thus British colonists held several Thanksgiving services in America before the Pilgrim's celebration in 1621.
The Pilgrims, with a puritanical rejection of public religious display, held a non-religious Thanksgiving feast, aside from saying grace. In fact, they seem to have used the three days for feasting, playing games, and even drinking liquor.
In 1623, the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, held another day of Thanksgiving. As a drought was destroying their crops, colonists prayed and fasted for relief; the rains came a few days later. And not long after, Captain Miles Standish arrived with staples and news that a Dutch supply ship was on its way. Because of all this good fortune, colonists held a day of Thanksgiving and prayer on June 30. This 1623 festival appears to have been the origin of our Thanksgiving Day because it combined a religious and social celebration.
Festivals of Thanksgiving were observed sporadically on a local level for more than 150 years. They tended to be autumn harvest celebrations. But in 1789, Elias Boudinot, Massachusetts, member of the House of Representatives, moved that a day of Thanksgiving be held to thank God for giving the American people the opportunity to create a Constitution to preserve their hard won freedoms. A Congressional Joint Committee approved the motion, and informed President George Washington. On October 3, 1789, the President proclaimed that the people of the United States observe "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer" on Thursday, the 26th of November.
The next three Presidents proclaimed, at most, two days of thanksgiving sometime during their terms of office, either on their own initiative or at the request of a joint Resolution of Congress. One exception was Thomas Jefferson, who believed it was a conflict of church and state to require the American people hold a day of prayer and thanksgiving. President James Madison proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to be held on April 13, 1815, the last such proclamation issued by a President until Abraham Lincoln did so in 1862.
Today, Thanksgiving is a time when many families come together, and many churches are open for special services. We have both Native Americans and immigrants to thank for the opportunity to observe a day of thanksgiving.
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The Thanksgiving Day
ResponderEliminaris a traditional celebration of North America (except Mexico). In the United States on the fourth Thursday of November, but originally was made last Thursday. In Canada, meanwhile, held the second Monday in October. Is regularly a large family celebration, where people gather with their relatives around the table, performing traditional celebrations.
The party is closely connected with the first events of English colonization in the New World. In 1620 a group of Christian settlers, who later became known as pilgrims traveled to America aboard the Mayflower. Landed in November, in late northern autumn, on the coast of Massachusetts (in the U.S. east coast) to fulfill its purpose in establishing the Plymouth Colony. The harsh winter in these latitudes took them by surprise, without having time to prepare for harsh conditions of deprivation and cold. Of the hundred pilgrims half of them survived. Those who succeeded had the luck to food aid and that the natives of the area, the Wampanoag Indians, were provided.
n the fall of 1621, already established and the first crop to harvest, the survivors decided to share its fruits with the Indians who helped them when they had no resources. The governor of the colony proclaimed "a day of giving thanks to God for us in a special manner rejoice over after collecting the fruits of our labor."
President Abraham Lincoln designated the last Thursday of November to commemorate the Day of Thanksgiving. But in 1939, because the Christmas trade and became a popular combination, President Franklin Roosevelt changed the holiday to the fourth Thursday of November to extend the distance between the two public holidays. Congress approved it in 1941.
Most people in the United States celebrate this festival with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks. The traditional main dish for dinner is a big roast turkey. This turkey is traditionally accompanied with a filling made of cornbread and sage.
It seems to me very interesting these traditions but does not belong to our country reveals the origin of this tradition as it comes from the ancient settlers from Europe, and now is a time to share with the family along with dishes which is usually a turkey and pumpkin pie as Pastre is something very traditional in that country and is very similar to the Christmas dinner that also make them, but in general is a way of expressing their culture pate.
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ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day is traditionally a day to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While its pilgrim-origins may have been religious, Thanksgiving has increasingly come to be identified as a secular holiday. Nowadays it often is casually referred to as “Turkey Day”. Even so, Thanksgiving continues to be the day that many Americans set aside for family gatherings and celebration through culinary traditions. It’s a day of pilgrims and forefathers, Native Americans, pumpkin pie, and of course, turkey. But although every school child today knows that the celebration occurs on the “fourth Thursday in November,” Thanksgiving’s current calendar location came only after a long and fitful journey.
Tradition has it that the first Thanksgiving celebration held in America occurred in 1619. According to Virginia.org, on December fourth of that year, thirty-eight English settlers arrived at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia. Their charter stated that they would set aside that day every year and observe it as a day of Thanksgiving.
As the story goes, Captain John Woodlief led the newly-arrived English colonists to a grassy slope along the James River and instructed them to drop to their knees and pray in thanks for a safe arrival to the New World. The 38 men from Berkeley Parish in England vowed:
“Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God.”
The vow can be read carved on a brick gazebo marking the location believed to be where Woodlief knelt beside the James River. Due to the hardships of those days, the celebration turned out to be a fairly short-lived occurrence.
The next recorded Thanksgiving celebration, and more in keeping with today’s modern celebration, occurred in 1621 at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts. There, the Wampanoag Native American tribe, helped the Massachusetts Pilgrims cultivate the land and fish, saving them from starvation. That harvest celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original Thirteen Colonies to later form the United States. The celebration was modeled after harvest festivals that were commonplace in Europe at the time.
(Thanksgiving Day) in the United States, a holiday commemorating the arrival of the first immigrants to Massachusetts looking for a place to practice their religion without problems. It was in this place where tradition says when the first English colony, which, if not for the help of the indigenous population had not come forward, they thanked him.
The noble purpose of the day, is an excuse for Americans to gather around the table with family and friends for a great feast that is star turkey and pumpkin pie (Pumpkin pie).
Broadway is the annual big stage dressed in huge balloons Macy 's in which famous moment and reveal where they are concentrated several performances framed in a fabulous parade of spectacular floats through the streets of Manhattan.
The costumes take to the streets as if it were a carnival attire conditioned by the proximity of the freezing Christmas
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest.
ResponderEliminarIn the United States, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada, where the harvest generally ends earlier in the year, the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October, which is observed as Columbus Day or protested as Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States .
Most people recognize the first Thanksgiving as taking place on an unremembered date, sometime in the autumn of 1621, when the Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate the bountiful harvest they reaped following their first winter in North America.
However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast, as is common now.
George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789.
Since 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States. A more recent tradition started in 1947. Since then, the president has been presented with a live turkey, which he 'pardons'. The turkey then spends the rest of its life peacefully on a farm.
Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with a feast shared among friends and family. In both Canada and the United States, it is an important family gathering, and people often travel far distances to be with family members for the celebration. The Thanksgiving holiday is generally a "four-day" weekend in the United States, in which Americans are given the relevant Thursday and Friday off. In Canada, it is a three-day weekend as Thanksgiving falls on a Monday.It is traditional for families and groups of friends to get together for a large meal. This often consists of a turkey, stuffing, different types of potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy and maize and other seasonal vegetables.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Many football games are played and watching them is a popular activity.
There´s so much information about Thanksgiving Day ancient origins, therefore I investigated something about what I think is one of the greatest and fantastic parades of the world, the Thanksgiving Macy´s Parade.
ResponderEliminarI would like to begin with a brief introduction.
Thanksgiving Day, more than any other holiday, holds a special place in the hearts of most North Americans. Thanksgiving Day is an annual, national holiday in the United States and Canada. The holiday can be traced back to a time when the colonists of Plymouth Massachusetts celebrated a successful harvest and thanked God for all the blessings of the past year with feasting and prayers. Though the time-honored meal of turkey and pumpkin pie has become an indigenous part of both countries cultures, each celebrate the holiday at different times.
Thanksgiving Macy´s Parade
Originally known as Macy´s Christmas Parade, the Thanksgivng Parade was started by Macy´s employees in November 1924 and featured animals from the Central Park Zoo.It was such a rousing success that Macy´s declared it would become an annual event. This parade has become a part of american pop culture and a world famous event, for generations has brought families to celebrate the start of a holiday season. The route begins at Central Park West and ends at Herald Square.
In 1927 were introduced the first giant great ballons, they reprented the american´s famous heroes and film characters. The 1927 Parade included helium-filled ballons for the first time. They were released above the city during the grand finale, but unexpectedly burst above Manhattan´s skyline.
In 1928 the helium ballons were redesigned with safety valves allowing them to float for several days. The improved ballons also featured return address labels offering prizes in case any ballons floated away. Those lucky enough to find them could bring them back to Macy´s for a reward.
1942-44. War halts the parade.
World War II brings the Parade to a halt for the first time in its history. Due to rubber and helium shortages, ballons were deflated and detonated to the government, providing 650 pounds of scrap rubber for the war effort.
1969. The first floats.
Their world-renowed creative team, led by Manfred Bass, began building their Parade floats in 1969. To this day, the floats continue to be designed in their Parade Studio, a former Tootsie Roll factory in Hoboken, NJ. The floats stand up to 40 feet tall, but can be folded to make their Parade eve trip to New York City via the Holland Tunnel, whereupon crews toil through the night to reassemble them for the 9am step-off.
Present.
Every years, more than 3 million people line the streets and other 44 million tune into NBC to watch the ballons, floats annd fallons join celebrities, bands and clown crews in the most spectacular holiday celebration in the world. The spirit of that small group of 1924 Macy´s employees lives on today with the participation of more than 4,000 volunteers on the famous 2-mile march through Manhattans streets.
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ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While it may have been religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday. It is sometimes casually referred to as Turkey Day.
The precise historical origin of the holiday is disputed. Although Americans commonly believe that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, there is some evidence for an earlier harvest celebration by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565. There was also a celebration two years before Plymouth (in 1619) in Virginia. There was a Thanksgiving of sorts in Newfoundland, modern-day Canada in 1578 but it was to celebrate a homecoming instead of the harvest.
Thanksgiving Day is also celebrated in Leiden, in the Netherlands. A different holiday which uses the same name is celebrated at a similar time of year in the island of Grenada.
Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, currently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.
Currently, in the United States Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday of October .
Thanksgiving in the United States was observed on various dates throughout history. By the mid 20th century, the final Thursday in November had become the customary day of Thanksgiving in most U.S. states. It was not until December 26, 1941, however, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after pushing two years earlier to move the date earlier to give the country an economic boost, signed a bill into law with Congress, making Thanksgiving a national holiday and settling it to the fourth (but not final) Thursday in November.
Thanksgiving in Canada did not have a fixed date until the late 19th century, at which time it was typically held on November 6. After the end of World War I, Thanksgiving Day and Remembrance Day ceremonies were usually held during the same week. To prevent the two holidays from clashing with one another, in 1957 the Canadian Parliament proclaimed Thanksgiving to be observed on its present date.
Historically, Thanksgiving began as a tradition of celebrating the harvest of the year.
Thanksgiving
ResponderEliminarIn 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
Thanksgiving Traditions
Many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.
Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented by Macy’s department store since 1924, New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest and most famous, attracting some 2 to 3 million spectators along its 2.5-mile route and drawing an enormous television audience. It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate floats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters.
Beginning in the mid-20th century and perhaps even earlier, the president of the United States has “pardoned” one or two Thanksgiving turkeys each year, sparing the birds from slaughter and sending them to a farm for retirement. A number of U.S. governors also perform the annual turkey pardoning rit.
Thanksgiving Controversies
ResponderEliminarFor some scholars, the jury is still out on whether the feast at Plymouth really constituted the first Thanksgiving in the United States. Indeed, historians have recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America that predate the Pilgrims’ celebration. In 1565, for instance, the Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilé invited members of the local Timucua tribe to a dinner in St. Augustine, Florida, after holding a mass to thank God for his crew’s safe arrival. On December 4, 1619, when 38 British settlers reached a site known as Berkeley Hundred on the banks of Virginia’s James River, they read a proclamation designating the date as “a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
Some Native Americans and others take issue with how the Thanksgiving story is presented to the American public, and especially to schoolchildren. In their view, the traditional narrative paints a deceptively sunny portrait of relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, masking the long and bloody history of conflict between Native Americans and European settlers that resulted in the deaths of millions. Since 1970, protesters have gathered on the day designated as Thanksgiving at the top of Cole’s Hill, which overlooks Plymouth Rock, to commemorate a “National Day of Mourning.” Similar events are held in other parts of the country.
Thanksgiving's Ancient Origins
Le the American concept of Thanksgiving developed in the colonies of New England, its roots can be traced back to the other side of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists who came over on the Mayflower and the Puritans who arrived soon after brought with them a tradition of providential holidays—days of fasting during difficult or pivotal moments and days of feasting and celebration to thank God in times of plenty.
As an annual celebration of the harvest and its bounty, moreover, Thanksgiving falls under a category of festivals that spans cultures, continents and millennia. In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans feasted and paid tribute to their gods after the fall harvest. Thanksgiving also bears a resemblance to the ancient Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Finally, historians have noted that Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest with feasting and merrymaking long before Europeans set foot on their sho.
http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/
ResponderEliminarMe parece que es una celebración con muchas controversias acerca de sus origenes.
Pero pienso que no tiene nada de malo la celebración, ya que se fomenta la convivencia familiar e incluso con las amistades.
I found in news, these publications on Thanksgiving Day:
ResponderEliminarThe 'Thanksgiving Day' Broadway dyed balloons and animated characters
The last Thursday of November is celebrated on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a holiday commemorating the arrival of the first immigrants to Massachusetts looking for a place to practice their religion without problems. It was in this place where tradition says when the first English colony, which, if not for the help of the indigenous population had not come forward, they thanked him.
The noble purpose of the day, is an excuse for Americans to gather around the table with family and friends for a great feast that is star turkey and pumpkin pie.
Broadway is the annual big stage dressed in huge balloons Macy 's in which famous moment and reveal where they are concentrated several performances framed in a fabulous parade of spectacular floats through the streets of Manhattan.
The costumes take to the streets as if it were a carnival attire conditioned by the proximity of the chilly holiday season. A big attraction for local visitors and this year will not want to miss the actress Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice and Melissa Rivers have also been allowed to see the singers Kanye West, Gladys Knight, Juanes, Jessica Simpson and a beautiful Kylie Minogue. The TV showman Jimmy Fallon (NBC) or the Miss America Rima Fakih also approached.
Besides enjoying this event no doubt, many Americans looked forward to today, Black Friday, the day when most stores are bidding very pleasant to anticipate the Christmas shopping, not for nothing the following Friday Action Thanksgiving represents 30% of sales and purchases made throughout the year in the U.S.. The day turns into a real crazy because all to the items are discounted up to 80%. (See the starting gun of the sales in Florida.)
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Traders suffer Thanksgiving
Tijuana, BC. DAY Thanksgiving in America represents the beginning of holiday sales, but martyrdom for traders of the border in Mexico to witness the flight of more than 6.000 million dollars annually.
The last Thursday of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day, considered a day to share with family and is characterized by a turkey dinner, but for the commercial world, the next day is packed with buyers shopping in search of deals awaited year.
For some specialists, the so-called black friday is the thermometer indicates, to some extent, consumer confidence during the holiday season.
This business phenomenon means a debacle for the Baja California border trade, which each year shows the flight of thousands of dollars to the United States.
Eleconomista.mx
victor meza
ResponderEliminaralready had an idea what was Thanksgiving Day, but just thought that was celebrated in the U.S. , But also celebrate it in canada, india, china.
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Thanksgiving Day
ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day , legal holiday in the U.S., first celebrated in early colonial times in New England. The actual origin, however, is probably the harvest festivals that are traditional in many parts of the world Festivals and Feasts. After the first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists in 1621, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Native Americans. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock held their Thanksgiving in 1621 as a three day "thank you" celebration to the leaders of the Wampanoag Indian tribe and their families for teaching them the survival skills they needed to make it in the New World. It was their good fortune that the tradition of the Wampanoags was to treat any visitor to their homes with a share of whatever food the family had, even if supplies were low. It was also an amazing stroke of luck that one of the Wampanoag, Tisquantum or Squanto, had become close friends with a British explorer, John Weymouth, and had learned the Pilgrim's language in his travels to England with Weymouth.
After the first New England Thanksgiving the custom spread throughout the colonies, but each region chose its own date. In 1789 George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed November 26 a day of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving day continued to be celebrated in the United States on different days in different states until Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, decided to do something about it. For more than 30 years she wrote letters to the governors and presidents asking them to make Thanksgiving Day a national holiday.
Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln issued a White House proclamation calling on the "whole American people" wherever they lived to unite "with one heart and one voice" in observing a special day of thanksgiving. Setting apart the last Thursday of November for the purpose, the President urged prayers in the churches and in the homes to "implore the interposition of the almighty had to heal the wounds of the nations and to restore it...to full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and union." He also states that they express heartfelt thanks for the "blessing of fruitful fields and healthful skies."
In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt advanced Thanksgiving Day one week. However, since some states used the new date and others the old, it was changed again 2 years later. Thanksgiving Day is now celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
The first formal celebration of Thanksgiving in North America was held by an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who attempted to establish an English settlement on Baffin Island, after failing to discover a northern passage to the Orient in 1576. Canada established the second Monday in October as a national holiday, "a day of general thanksgiving," in 1957.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom. By the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.
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ResponderEliminarOn Thanksgiving Day, the most peculiarly American national holiday was first celebrated in 1621 by residents of the Plymouth Colony. These settlers, who later were called Pilgrims left England because they wanted to separate from the established church and worship God in their own way. After leaving England, the Pilgrims settled in Holland in 1608.
ResponderEliminarFinally in 1620 they embarked on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom in the New World. Complete with its original destination was the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, a storm brought them out of their way and arrived in November 1620 north of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The first winter was one of great hardship for the settlers, since more than half the colony died of starvation and disease. However, those who survived continued to fight and spring planted his first crop of corn.
Squanto, an Indian warrior, he befriended them and taught the colonists how to plant and cultivate corn, and helped to establish good relations with neighboring Indian tribes. In the fall of 1621, after a good harvest, Governor Bradford proclaimed a "day of giving thanks to God for us in a special way rejoicing after picking the fruit of our work."
In a gesture of friendship, the Pilgrims invited the Indians together neighbors to a party, in which they share turkeys and geese, corn, lobster, clams, squash, pumpkins and dried fruits.
Due to a poor harvest and problems with the Indians, it was not possible to celebrate Thanksgiving next year. However, in 1623 the Governor Bradford proclaimed July 30 as the Day of Thanksgiving to celebrate the end of a long period of drought.
After 1623, the celebration of Thanksgiving was irregular and usually with a regional base. However, in 1789, shortly after the thirteen colonies had come together, President George Washington had an agreement for Congress to hold a national day of "public thanksgiving and prayer." Approved the resolution and 26 November 1789 held the first National Day of Thanksgiving. The proclamation for George Washington urged Americans to give thanks to God for his protection, for victory in the struggle for freedom and for peace and prosperity in the new country.
The Thanksgiving Day is a traditional celebration in the United States, which is held every year on the fourth Thursday of November.
Usually at the holiday get together around a table family and friends to share a feast. Although its origins are religious, is considered a secular holiday.
Most people in the United States celebrate this festival with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks. The traditional main dish for dinner is a great roast turkey or baked. This turkey is traditionally accompanied with a filling made of cornbread and sage. Is traditionally served with a jelly or cranberry sauce.
In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day is a communal celebration marked as a sense of gratitude people feel for all the good things in life.
The traditional stuffed turkey adorns every dinner table during the feast.Pumpkin pie, Cranberry sauce, Corns are some of the dishes cooked everywhere to mark the day.
The traditional Thanksgiving parade probably started with President Lincoln proclaiming it an official day. The full- dress parade is a way to display the country's military strength and discipline. The main aim of such parades is to lift the spirits of the spectators, provide them with wholesome entertainment. In the present day, parades are accompanied with musical shows and celebrities.
It has a very interesting history. Its origin can be traced back to the 16th century when the first thanksgiving dinner is said to have taken place.
In the summer of 1621, owing to severe drought, pilgrims called for a day of fasting and prayer to please God and ask for a bountiful harvest in the coming season. God answered their prayers and it rained at the end of the day. It saved the corn crops.
It is said that Pilgrims learnt to grow corn, beans and pumpkins from the Indians, which helped all of them survive . In the autumn of 1621, they held a grand celebration where 90 people were invited including Indians. The grand feast was organized to thank god for his favors. This communal dinner is popularly known as “The first thanksgiving feast”. There is however, no evidence to prove if the dinner actually took place.
sorry for the time teacher but i forgot
ResponderEliminarMost stories of Thanksgiving history start with the harvest celebration of the pilgrims and the Native Americans that took place in the autumn of 1621. Although they did have a three-day feast in celebration of a good harvest, and the local natives did participate, this "first thanksgiving" was not a holiday, simply a gathering. There is little evidence that this feast of thanks led directly to our modern Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving can, however, be traced back to 1863 when Pres. Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since.
However, since most school children are taught that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 with the Pilgrims and Indians, let us take a closer look at just what took place leading up to that event, and then what happened in the centuries afterward that finally gave us our modern Thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.
Sincerly i don´t care about this celebration, is not our celebration, so, it´s not important for me or somebody i know, but i have to comment so here is some information i found, like i said i dont care about thanksgiving, but the recipe to cook turkey sound delicious so here is it:
ResponderEliminarCrockpot Stuffed Turkey Breast
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 small onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup celery, finely chopped
2 1/2 ounces bacon croutons
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon fresh minced parsley
1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 whole uncooked turkey breast
salt and pepper
cheesecloth (24x36")
dry white wine
Combine butter, onion, celery, croutons, bouillon, parsley, and poultry seasoning. Cut turkey breast in thick slices, from breastbone to rib cage, leaving slices attached to bone. Sprinkle turkey with salt and pepper. Soak cheesecloth in wine. Set turkey on cheesecloth. Stuff bread mixture into slits of turkey. Fold one end of cheesecloth over other to cover meat. Place on metal rack or trivet in slow-cooking pot.
Cover pot and cook on low for 7 to 9 hours or until tender. Pour additional wine over turkey during cooking. Remove from pot and take cheesecloth off immediately. If browner breast is preferred, remove from pot and brown in 400ºF oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Let stand 10 min. Drippings may be thickened for gravy if desired. Serve each person one or more thick slices of turkey with dressing in between. This recipe designed for 4 1/2 qt or larger slow cooking pot.
Thanksgiving Day celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. Is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While there was an underlying religious element in the original celebration, Thanksgiving today is primarily identified as a secular holiday.
ResponderEliminarThe traditional origin of modern Thanksgiving in the United States is generally regarded to be the celebration that occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts, in 1621. The Wampanoag Native Americans helped the pilgrims who arrived in Massachusetts cultivate the land and fish, saving them from starvation. This harvest celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original Thirteen Colonies that later were to become the United States. This Thanksgiving was modeled after harvest festivals that were commonplace in Europe at the time.
Better late than never!
ResponderEliminarThanksgiving Day in the United States is an annual day of thanks for the blessings of the past year, observed on the fourth Thursday in November in each of the states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It is a historical, national, and religious holiday that began with the Pilgrims. After the survival of their first colony through the bitter winter, and the gathering of the harvest, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony issued a thanksgiving proclamation in the autumn of 1621. This first thanksgiving lasted three days, during which the Pilgrims feasted on wild turkey and venison with their Indian guests.
Days of thanksgiving were celebrated sporadically until, on November 26, 1789, President Washington issued a proclamation of a nation-wide day of thanksgiving. He made it clear that the day should be one of prayer and giving thanks to God. It was to be celebrated by all religious denominations, a circumstance that helped to promote a spirit of common heritage.