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November 18, 2010

ThanksgivingThanksgiving

……It is a time….to say thank you… the It is a time….to say thank you… the day America sets aside for family, for day America sets aside for family, for

remembrance…remembrance…

•The first Thanksgiving celebration held in The first Thanksgiving celebration held in America occurred in 1619America occurred in 1619

•The next recorded celebration is also very famous, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1621

•The next “Thanksgiving” celebration did not occur until 1623

•In 1688 the General Court tried to In 1688 the General Court tried to bring some order to the celebration bring some order to the celebration

by declaring by declaring November 25November 25

The first national celebration of The first national celebration of Thanksgiving occurred in 1777.Thanksgiving occurred in 1777.

……Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Becomes an Official Becomes an Official Holiday...Holiday...

In 1941, Thanksgiving In 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth holiday, as the fourth Thursday in NovemberThursday in November

It should be noted It should be noted that while that while

Thanksgiving has Thanksgiving has become a holiday become a holiday deeply associated deeply associated

with America, there with America, there have been numerous have been numerous “harvest”, autumn, “harvest”, autumn, and “thanksgiving” and “thanksgiving”

throughout including throughout including Grecian, Roman, Grecian, Roman,

Egyptian celebration.Egyptian celebration.

Wild Turkeys, native to the eastern United Wild Turkeys, native to the eastern United States were a part of the first Thanksgiving States were a part of the first Thanksgiving feast and since then, turkeys have remain feast and since then, turkeys have remain

an important Thanksgiving symbolan important Thanksgiving symbol