Thanksgiving Essays

Thanksgiving is now celebrated on the fourth Thursday each ...

While at the dinner I learned some things about the inner workings of being a refugee.

That is, I began to see the culmination of all of their hard work. Read More The holidays are starting and retailers are busy.

Originally it was the day we celebrated the goodness that the Native American Indians shared with the original New Englanders the day they arrived. Read More The truth behind the tradition is surprising.

But now it has become just a stepping-stone for Christmas. Read More Thanksgiving Day, national holiday in the U. commemorating the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621. Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims seem to go together, but the truth is, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving signifies family, food, fun, history, and tradition all wrapped up into one midweek day.

Stemming form a harvest festival by the pilgrims in 1621.

And that dinner table is actually the coffee table in the living room.

It seems quite different from the generic thanksgiving dinner setting, with the whole family congregated around the large table in the ...

Read More THE FIRST THANKSGIVING On September 6, 1620, 102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World.

The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Read More Strive to make Thanksgiving meaningful Thanksgiving is a special national holiday, richly steeped in individual and collective meaning.