The more you know! Thanksgiving edition!

[blue]

Jinglebells was originally a thanksgiving song...

[Dru Edwards]

Just a little tidbit on the Canadian side - Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 2nd Monday of October. We eat the same traditional meal as the US.

[Silly Moustache]

Never understood this festival/holiday.

I guess we harvest earlier in the UK.

Anyway, have a good one.

[brad4d8]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Just a little tidbit on the Canadian side - Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 2nd Monday of October. We eat the same traditional meal as the US.

When I was a student at Acadia, some of us Yanks would celebrate both days!

[philjs]

Originally Posted by brad4d8

When I was a student at Acadia, some of us Yanks would celebrate both days!

When we were living in TX we'd do the same...celebrate twice! Just as the frozen leftover turkey from October began to give out, we'd replenish it in November (then again at Christmas)! One can never have too much frozen home-cooked turkey...

Phil

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by brad4d8

When I was a student at Acadia, some of us Yanks would celebrate both days!

Acadia - beautiful campus.

[rllink]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Never understood this festival/holiday.

I guess we harvest earlier in the UK.

Anyway, have a good one.

It is pretty simple, the Pilgrims emigrated to North America from England and had a pretty good harvest in 1620. They were happy becsuse it looked like they weren't going to have to go back to England. So they celebrated.

[frankmcr]

Originally Posted by rllink

It is pretty simple, the Pilgrims emigrated to North America from England and had a pretty good harvest in 1620. They were happy becsuse it looked like they weren't going to have to go back to England. So they celebrated.

Ancient custom in England. http://harvestfestivals.net/englishfestivals.htm

Apparently a few of our British cousins don't care to acknowledge any kinship.

[rmp]

Originally Posted by blue

Jinglebells was originally a thanksgiving song...

well it's more about a horse isn't it!

[rmp]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Never understood this festival/holiday.

I guess we harvest earlier in the UK.

Anyway, have a good one.

It's really just a setup these days for black friday,,, so...

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by frankmcr

Ancient custom in England. http://harvestfestivals.net/englishfestivals.htm

Apparently a few of our British cousins don't care to acknowledge any kinship.

??? Thank you for this link. I've lived in the UK for 72 years so far, and whilst vaguely aware that there are churches around which, my wife tells me, are decorated with fruit and veg and "corn dollies" (?)
I don't believe there is a particular day, or that anyone celebrates with a special meal.

Incidentally, I've visited the "Plimouth Plantation" in Massachusetts, and chatted with the actors there who all had prepared stories about their origins although their accents were rarely geographically correct.

I'm also aware of the religious sectarians who, left England, went to the Netherlands thence to North America, and were initially dependant upon the locals to whom they gave small pox.

Do I feel any kinship? No, not really, however, I wish everyone a happy and safe weekend - although I assume that you won't be able to gather as extended families this year as in the past.

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by rllink

It is pretty simple, the Pilgrims emigrated to North America from England and had a pretty good harvest in 1620. They were happy becsuse it looked like they weren't going to have to go back to England. So they celebrated.

Well, that was the third Thanksgiving in the New World. The first was celebrated two years before on December 4th, 1619, at Berkley Plantation in Virginia. The Berkley Colony's charter stipulated that they have a service of thanksgiving the day they set foot at their new home and that they commemorate the event on the same day every year. They did so until March 22, 1622, when Powhattan Native Americans simultaneously attacked settlements up and down the James Rivers, slaughtered 347 of the settlers including nearly all of the Berkley group, and forced abandonment of the colony. It seems that the Plymouth settlers just had better P.R., a better harvest, and better relations with the locals, than the Berkley group.

Bob

[Martz911]

I found out yesterday that the lyrics to the "Over the River and Through the Wood" song came mostly from a poem by Lydia Maria Child originally titled "The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day".

Also, I always thought the first line was "Over the River and through the Woods" (instead of "wood") to grandmother's house (not "grandfather's house").

You live and you learn.