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The 35th annual thanksgiving festival.

Thanksgiving greetings prayers. Thanksgiving day a joyous family festival is celebrated by people with great enthusiasm in places like usa canada and many other countries as well. Basically the festival of thanksgiving day is the day of commemorating the feast held by the pilgrim colonists as well as members of the people of wampanoag of plymouth in the year 1621. Thanksgiving day annual national holiday in the united states and canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

It is a post election tradition that celebrates the announcement of the election results with a unique festival and ceremony. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the united states canada brazil grenada saint lucia and liberia and the sub national entities leiden norfolk island and puerto ricoit began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. General considerations for fall and winter holidays.

Thanksgiving day is a federal holiday in the united states. Thursday november 28th 2019 from 12 3 pm at west chester area senior center. Thanksgiving day bears its origin from the harvest festival.

Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the united states celebrated on the fourth thursday of november. The day was declared a federal holiday by abraham lincoln in 1863. It is sometimes called american thanksgiving outside the united states to distinguish it from the canadian holiday of the same nameit originated as a harvest festival and to this day the centerpiece of thanksgiving celebrations remains thanksgiving dinner.

Generally americans give thanks to god for their autumn harvest and every other success they have achieved in the year. The celebration had a grand feast which lasted for 3 days and as per the attendee edward winslow the celebration was attended by 90 native americans and 53 pilgrims. Similarly named festival holidays occur in germany and japan.

The first thanksgiving was celebrated by pilgrims after the first harvest in the new world october in 1621. Marine corps birthday marine corps birthday celebrates the establishment of the united states marine corps on november 10 1775. Thursday november 28th 2019 from 12 3 pm at west chester area senior center.

Americans generally believe that their thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the european colonists pilgrims of plymouth and the wampanoag people.