Thanksgiving - Understanding The Holiday

Thanks to most people, family and friends and Turkey, or maybe beer and football. Many do not know or even care about the & 39; significence holidays. Way to back in the 1600& 39;s a group of people who were members of the English Separatist Church & 39; (Puritan & 39; s) in England have fled their country to escape religious persecution. They ascend & 39; on board a vessel sailed to Holland and the Netherlands. In Holland, people enjoy & 39; a little free time of religious persecution, they encountered back in England, but they soon became frustrated by the bad character of the Dutch people and what they saw as & 39; sinful lifestyles.
Seeking still a better lifestyle, the separatists entered into an agreement with a corporation in London to fund a trip to America & 39; on board a ship called the Mayflower. There were others who came & 39; d d & 39; England & 39; who were not separatists, in fact, the majority who travelled on the Mayflower did & 39; were not.
The group arrived in the United States on Dec. 11, 1620 and put on the ground at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The first season of winter & 39; pilgrims encountered in America was horrible. With extreme cold and blizzard conditions, they have lost 46 of the original & 39; more than 102 who came on the Mayflower. But the spring and summer & 39; s & 39; next year has been wonderful with most of the day pleasant and friendly, and most pilgrims stay healthy. The Indians showed them where and how to hunt and trap available for the game, and shared their secrets on the growth and storage of native cultures. The harvest of 1621 was very abundant and pilgrims as well as the local Indians who had helped them survive their first year, decided & 39; have a huge feast to celebrate and give thanks.
The feast or more commonly known as The First Thanksgiving " " is probably rise to & 39; outside on the main tables and benches, most people sat on blankets on the ground while eating because the records show that settlers & 39; n not have a building large enough to greet everyone.
From an original letter of & 39; a member of the colony, & 39; Edward Winslow, here is the account of the reality of the First Thanksgiving Day:
"Our harvest being obtained, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after & 39; somehow gratifying After the concert, we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They have four killed in a single day as far as poultry, with a little help beside & 39;, the company has served nearly & 39; a week. At this point, among other entertainment, we exercised our arms, many Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, who for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and on the captain and other & 39;. And although this is not always so plentiful as it was this time with us, but by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you a lot of our participants. "
The handwritten letter, we can see that Indian Chief or King 1 and 90 more (91 total Indian), who were invited as guests attended & 39; to & 39; event, as well as pilgrims, and that the feast or celebration that lasted 3 days. The celebration feast or not recur again until & 39; years & 39; in 1623, when a severe drought during the & 39; pilgrims gathered together and prayed for rain. The next day, a long rain occurred regularly, and the Governor Bradford proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving, and again the pilgrims or & 39; settlers & 39; indian invited their friends to celebrate.
The upcoming feast of Thanksgiving & 39; n has not been the case until & 39; to & 39; year 1676, when the Governing Council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting on the best way to celebrate and to give thanks for the happiness of their community has undergone. By voting, they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of Thanksgiving.
Other dates that are important to the Thanksgiving holiday in October were & 39; years from 1777, when there were & 39; leave Thanksgiving, which was celebrated by & 39; all 13 settlements that had been created. In 1789, George Washington proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving, and after a campaign & 39; sending letters to the presidents and governors, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as the national day of Thanksgiving. The date has been changed more & 39; once or twice, but finally in 1941 it was sanctioned by Congress as a public holiday, the fourth Thursday in November, where it remains today & 39; hui.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful celebration that we are all celebrating, and it is FREE Thanksgiving Screensaver available for download at this website address: Robert W. http://www.rb59.com/thanksgiving-screensaver
By Benjamin
Copyright 2005
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