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Prior to the formal establishment of Thanksgiving, Native American harvest festivals had been celebrated for centuries, with colonial services dating back to the late 16th century. After a season of bountiful growth, the autumnal feasts celebrated crop harvesting. In the early 1600s, settler communities in both Massachusetts and Virginia came together to thank them for their survival, their field fertility, and their faith. The most widely known early Thanksgiving is that of the Pilgrims in Plimoth, Massachusetts, who celebrated with the people of Wampanoag in 1621 for three days. For more details:- http://www.bimbel.de/artikel/artikel-17.html http://meridies.blogalia.com/historias/33039#1051921 http://www.catsbowwow.com/guestbook/ http://www.atyourdoorrvservice.com/guestbook/ http://greattiger1.tblog.jp/?eid=303869 https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27167137&postID=7244807648151493965&page=2&token=1572420231849 https:...

Thanksgiving has come to know us as an opportunity to express our appreciation for the abundance of our lives, whether it's the excellent relationships we have with our friends and families, our opportunities, our health — or stuffing ourselves with mashed potatoes. But the past of the holiday is a little more complicated than just a commemoration of the appreciation that we should share more than one day of the year of our lives. Thanksgiving's story, as it happens, has many layers including spectacle, entrepreneurial spirit, and economic recovery— and, of course, feasting. If it weren't for this committed girl, there wouldn't be Thanksgiving today. Hale's loyalty to Thanksgiving began in 1827 and was founded in national pride; she hoped to make it "permanently, an American norm and institution." It wasn't until 1863 that President Lincoln finally declared Thanksgiving a national vacation. Seeing as the President did this in the midst of the Civil W...