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Thanksgiving Day 2010 |
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Thanksgiving Day is a traditional harvest celebration. It was celebrated for the first time in 1621, by the puritans who migrated to New England in America. They introduced the Thanksgiving feast for the first time after the first harvest in the new land. It was a gratitude to God for the abundance. There are various myths associated with Thanksgiving Day.
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It is as James W. Baker, Senior Historian at Plymoth Plantation says-
"The reason that we have so many myths associated with Thanksgiving is that it is an invented tradition. It doesn't originate in any one event. It is based on the New England puritan Thanksgiving, which is a religious Thanksgiving, and the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England and maybe other ideas like commemorating the pilgrims. All of these have been gathered together and transformed into something different from the original parts."
Thanksgiving feast is often referred to as "The First Thanksgiving" but the feast was never repeated and so it cannot be called the beginning of a tradition. The colonists did not call it a Thanksgiving feast either. To the piously religious puritans it was a day of prayer and fasting and would have been held any time when they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Yet, the 1691 feast became a landmark and since then America has celebrated the Thanksgiving Day as a tradition.
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