Holiday Greetings fb family! Excited about upcoming Turkey Day? I cant wait! To celebrate I thought I would give you 10 fun facts about Thanksgiving you can share with your friends and relatives over the dinner table tomorrow. Enjoy! 1. The date of what is typically recognized as the first Thanksgiving is not precisely known though it occurred between September 21 and November 9, 1621. The Plymouth Pilgrims dined with Wampanoag Indians for the first Thanksgiving. 2. While most Americans think of the Pilgrims as celebrating the first Thanksgiving in America, there are some claims that others in the New World should be recognized as first. For example, in Texas there is a marker that says, Feast of the First Thanksgiving – 1541. 3. The First Thanksgiving lasted for three days. (Today some people are stuffed for that long.) 4. According to Edward Winslow, a participant in the first Thanksgiving, the feast consisted of corn, barley, fowl including wild turkeys and waterfowl, and venison. (Yum :) 5. 52 Pilgrims attended the first Thanksgiving in 1621 including John Alden, William Bradford, Priscilla Mullins, and Miles Standish (How many are attending your Thanksgiving.) 6. The First Thanksgiving was actually a secular event that was not repeated. A Calvinist Thanksgiving actually did occure in 1623 and did not involve sharing food with the Native Americans. 7. The first national celebration of Thanksgiving was declared in 1775 by the Continental Congress. This was to celebrate the win at Saratoga during the American Revolution. However, this was not an annual event. 8. The author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, was key in getting Thanksgiving officially recognized as a national holiday. 9. Each year the President officially declares a day of National Thanksgiving. 10. Since Harry Truman was in office, every president has pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving. Hope you enjoy these little tidbits of trivia and most importantly, I wanted to wish you and your family and safe and happy Thanksgiving this year!
Posted on: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:08:15 +0000
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