Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day) - it is a day for family gatherings and holiday meals. Food is traditionally includes turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and vegetables.
This is also the time of corn, festivals, parades and giant balloons. But it is also time for many people to thank for the fact that they have.
The holiday dates back nearly four hundred years. There is no unity of opinion, but when the day was first celebrated. But most believe that the prototype of the modern holiday was a harvest festival, marked by the colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621 godu.Odnako their first real Thanksgiving was the day in 1623 when they gave thanks for rain, ending the drought and a good harvest.
It was a special church service, and not a holiday.
In the second half of the 17th century tradition of thanksgiving for the harvest has gradually spread and become an annual event.наверно так