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Thanksgiving
What is Thanksgiving?
❖ Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United
States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks for
the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. (Similarly named harvest
festival holidays occur throughout the world during autumn, including in Germany and
Japan). Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on
the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and around the same part of the
year in other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural
traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well.
❖ Thanksgiving Day did not become an official holiday until Northerners dominated the
federal government. While sectional tensions prevailed in the mid-19th century, the
editor of the popular magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, Sarah Josepha Hale, campaigned for
a national Thanksgiving Day to promote unity. She finally won the support of
President Abraham Lincoln. On October 3, 1863, during the Civil War, Lincoln proclaimed
History
Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving
ceremonies are common among most
religions after harvests and at other times of
the year. The Thanksgiving holiday's history in
North America is rooted in English traditions
dating from the Protestant Reformation. It
also has aspects of a harvest festival, even
though the harvest in New England occurs
well before the late-November date on which
the modern Thanksgiving holiday is
celebrated.
In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special
thanksgiving religious services became important
during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry
VIII. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus
52 Sundays, when people were required to attend
church and forego work. Though the 1536 reforms in
the Church of England reduced the number of
holidays in the liturgical calendar to 27,
the Puritan party in the Anglican Church wished to
eliminate all Church holidays apart from the
weekly Lord's Day, including the evangelical
feasts of Christmas and Easter (cf. Puritan Sabbatari
anism). The holidays were to be replaced by specially
called Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving, in
response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts
of special providence. Unexpected disasters
or threats of judgement from on high called for Days
of Fasting.
Special blessings, viewed as coming from God,
called for Days of Thanksgiving, which were
observed through Christian church services and
other gatherings. For example, Days of
thanksgiving were called following the victory
over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following
the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1605.An
unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in
1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder
Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes
Day on November 5.Days of Fasting were called
on account of plagues in 1604 and 1622, drought
in 1611, and floods in 1613.
Annual Thanksgiving prayers were dictated by
the charter of English settlers upon their safe
landing in America in 1619 at Berkeley
Hundred in Virginia.
Where was the first
Thanksgiving?
In Plymouth, Massachusestts, colonists and Wampanoag
Indians shared an autumn harvest feast in 1621 that is
widely acknowledge to be one of the first Thanksgiving
celebrations. But some historians argue that Florida,
not Massachusetts, may have been the true site of the
first Thanksgiving in North America. In 1565, nearly 60
years before Plymouth, a Spanish fleet cmae ashore
and planted a cross in the sandy beach to christen the
new settlement of St. Augustine. To celebrate the
arrival, the 800 Spanish settlers shared a festival meal
with the native Timucuan people
❖The American holiday is particularly rich in legend and
symbolism, and the traditional fare of the Thanksgiving meal
typically includes turkey, bread stuffing, potatoes,
cranberries, and pumpkin pie. Although many other types of
meat are mentioned, "the roasted turkey took precedence on
this occasion, being placed at the head of the table; and well
did it become its lordly station, sending forth the rich odour
of its savoury stuffing". For dessert, "the celebrated pumpkin
pie...occupied the most distinguished niche" and was
described as "an indispensable part of a good and
true Yankee Thanksgiving".With respect to vehicular travel,
the holiday is often the busiest of the year,
as family members gather with one another.
❖ A Thanksgiving Day dinner served to the Civilian
Conservation Corps in 1935 included: pickles, green olives,
celery, roast turkey, oyster stew, cranberry sauce, giblet
gravy, dressing, creamed asparagus tips, snowflake
potatoes, baked carrots, hot rolls, fruit salad, mince
pie, fruitcake, candies, grapes, apples, clams, fish, and many
other foods, along with French drip coffee.
How is Thanksgiving celebrated by an American?
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