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Did you know...
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North
American holiday, which is a form of harvest festival. The
date and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration
is a topic of modest contention, though the earliest attested
Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what
is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Despite scholarly research
to the contrary, the traditional "first Thanksgiving"
is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth
Plantation, in 1621.
"The First Thanksgiving", painted
by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930)
In 1621, one year after arrival in
the New World aboard the Mayflower and the following winter
disk on which many of them perished because of illness,
the inhabitants of the colonies celebrated the success of
their first harvest by organizing a festival of thanks to
which invited the Native Americans. In the menu that first
American Thanksgiving there was certainly some dish that
became tradition for holidays - turkey and pumpkin - along
with other white meat, venison, oysters, shellfish, fish,
cakes of cereals, dried fruit and nuts
Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated
on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth
Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving
dinner is done in the evening, usually as a gathering of
friends and/or family. At this time you say all your thanks
and wishes.
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