Thanksgiving Day Holiday Information

Thanksgiving is a time for sharing and spreading happiness with beloved friends and family, savoring the good times of togetherness with sumptuous feasts and delectable desserts. Cultivating an attitude of gratitude can make you happier in your every day life. We wish you and your family a safe, healthy and happy Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one day holiday to give thanks (traditionally to a God), for the things one has at the close of the harvest season.

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. The first official Thanksgiving Day celebration was held in the Virginia Colony on December 4, 1619, where celebrations are still held each year in November.

In North America, certain kinds of food are commonly served as Thanksgiving Day meals. First and foremost, turkey is usually the featured item on any Thanksgiving feast dinning table, Thanksgiving is sometimes referred to as Turkey Day. Turkey dressing stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn, other vegetables, cake, cherry pie and sweet potatoe pie are commonly eaten during Thanksgiving Day dinner. After the feast gathering, watching football is often a major part of the celebrations. Additionally, many college and high school football games are played over Thanksgiving weekend, often between regional or historic rivals.

On Thanksgiving Day, families and friends usually gather for a large meal or dinner. This results in Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend being one of the busiest travel periods of the year. Many people drive or fly in planes to family and friends homes for the feast gathering.

In celebration of the "Turkey day" holiday In New York City, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held annually every Thanksgiving Day on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The American Christmas shopping season in the U.S. begins the day after Thanksgiving on "Black Friday" this tradition has held forth since at least the 1930s. While the biggest day of shopping of the year in the U.S., as measured by customer traffic, is still the Friday after Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims were particularly thankful to the native American Indians who taught them how to catch fish, grow corn and other vegitables. Without the native American Indians help the Pilgrims might not have survived in the new world. That We now know as the United States of America in North America.

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY

 

The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock,

Determined they would stay

So with home made plows and axes,

They cleared the land away.

The Indians helped them plant their crops

And by the end of fall,

They reaped a golden harvest

That brought food enough for all.

After the crops were gathered in,

They planned a celebration

And extended to their Indian friends

A special invitation.

The tables and the benches

Wee set up in a row

And when they spread the food out,

It was really quite a show.

They all sat down together

And they bowed their heads in prayer

And gave thanks for the abundance

God had given them to share.

When the party was all over

And each went his separate way,

They took away warm memories

Of that first Thanksgiving Day.