Added: 01/05/2007 |
Thanksgiving Holiday Celebrations and Memories of Times PastThe Thanksgiving Holiday means many things to everyone. For some it is a time of gathering and sharing together with loved ones and friends for a delicious feast, letting them know how thankful you are for them being in your lives. Others look forward to a whole day of football games to be shared with friends and family, while eating that wonderful meal in front of the tube. And who of us don't look forward to watching at least one Thanksgiving Holiday Parade on TV or if your really lucky, watching one in person and anticipating Santa's yearly appearance at the end. The great aroma of a turkey, roasting away in the oven and all of the pies, cakes and stuffing to go along with it, this is almost everyone's best part of the Holiday. Then afterwards, sitting around and just enjoying the time with family, you may only get to see at this time of year.
Foods that are mostly served on Thanksgiving Holidays include the roasted turkey (which is one of the main features), stuffing made with herbs or cornbread, gravy made from giblets or brown gravy, cranberries, corn, green beans, sweet potatoes and mash potatoes, and of course, the ever famous pumpkin pies.
The day following the Thanksgiving Holiday is known to be the busiest day of the year for shoppers. Did you know that a lot of the stores start to roll out their Christmas gifts and merchandise the day following the Halloween celebration?
In the United States, in the year 1621, the Pilgrim’s had a very bad year that was rough on their harvests that 1st year they made their home in a new world. The following year was quite different from the last, the Pilgrim’s were overjoyed that their harvest’s that Fall where beautiful a plenty for them all. Crops yielded vegetables, fruit and Indian corn. They also had fish that had been stuffed with salt and cured smoked meat cooked over their fires. The Pilgrim’s had plenty of food to last throughout the coming winter months.
William Bradford, who was the Governor, decided to make a proclamation that a Thanksgiving Holiday be had and enjoyed by all Pilgrim’s, Colonists and their friends the Indians also. This celebration was held every year following the harvest time. They kept this through many, many, years.
In the 1770’s, while the American Revolution was still waging, the Continental Congress proposed a Thanksgiving Holiday to be held nationally.
The state of New York in the year 1817, accepted Thanksgiving Day as one of their customs held yearly. Other states followed suit in the mid-19th Century, celebrating the Thanksgiving Day Holiday too.
President Lincoln in the year 1863 allotted the Thanksgiving Holiday as a national day of giving thanks. Every President after President Lincoln has given a speech on Thanksgiving Day and selected the fourth Thursday in the month of November to be celebrated as Thanksgiving for all.
Some people have even begun decorating for Christmas by the Thanksgiving Holidays. They figure they can enjoy it a little longer and add the Thanksgiving Holiday in there too. The Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays are both all about joy, caring and sharing with those we love and those who may be less fortunate than us that may need a helping hand this time of the year especially. So why not try and help those in need throughout the entire year instead of just one or two times a year?
Some questions to ask you this Thanksgiving Holiday are: why should I show my thanks and what I am thankful for? This Thanksgiving season what do you consider being the most thankful for this year? Who of your friends and loved ones are you the most thankful for and why are you most thankful for them? The answers to these questions bring about the true meaning of the Thanksgiving Holiday’s which is the joy of giving and showing thanks to all those important people in our lives that we are so often too bust throughout the rest of the year to say thank you too.
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