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Thanksgiving Day Holiday

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the USA on the fourth Thursday in November. It’s one of the most popular holidays in the country.
Thanksgiving Day was first celebrated in 1621 by the English colonists who lived in Plymouth colony. Their preceding winter was very difficult and lean and the winter coming would bode ill for the colonists. Then the governor William Bradford decided to encourage his people and organized the first Thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated the holiday together with their Indian neighbors who saved Plymouth colony from starvation in the first winter.
The Puritan gave this holiday a profound religious meaning. They regarded it as a way to thank God for His divine mercy.
Thanksgiving Day became a national holiday in 1789 when the first President George Washington issued a proper edict.
A variety of traditions that Americans hold sacred and cherish are closely connected with Thanksgiving Day. It’s obligatory that all family members must go to church and then gather together for Thanksgiving dinner. Charity starts flourishing on the threshold of Thanksgiving Day. Americans try to feed those who are unlucky and make their neighbors happy for a while.
Even at subway stations there are special tables on which those who wish can put their donations including foodstuffs. Newspaper ads say the following: “If you subscribe $1.90, you can give a set meal to a homeless or a poor man. Having donated $19 you will feed 19 people etc.” On the eve of this holiday charitable foundations dispense gathered gifts to the needy and arrange dinners to the homeless.
Turkey on a holiday table is the main symbol of Thanksgiving Day. On the first holiday the colonists and Indians roasted and ate together 4 Turkeys which they shot in the near forest. Since then Turkey and Thanksgiving Day became the synonyms. Poultry breeders fatten up Turkeys specially for this holiday. Two best Turkeys are demonstrated to the President on the special ceremony. One of them is fried for the holiday table in the White House, the second is spared solemnly by the President and brought to a peculiar farm where it will be safe and spend the rest of its life. Fathers the founders debated about turkey and it nearly became a nation-wide symbol of the US. However, peace turkey made way for a raptorial bald eagle.
The next attribute of the holiday is fancy-dress parades with clothing of the 17th century and Indians costumes. A new tradition appeared on Thanksgiving Day in the 20th century. This day people play American football.



Written by MotherKristy


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