Thanksgiving Day Story

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day is a day to thank God of the American people for the pilgrimage able to establish new colony and survived as from year 1620.

The pilgrimage had departed from the England by Mayflower ship to settle in America. They came ashore at Plymouth State in Massachusetts. Thomas decided to establish a colonial infrastructure in North Plymouth Colony and established homes, with Gov. William Bradford and Miles Standish leadership. In autumn next year after the crop was harvested, they organized party to celebrate thanksgiving that helps survival for 1 year anniversary because the first pilgrims had died of  the winter's famine and diseased with almost half colonies dead.

The dinner was first for thanksgiving. They invited people's indigenous Indian tribe named “Wampnaug” join eating because of Indian people teaching them cultivate corn and other native crops as food.

The party that consists of turkey, duck, goose, cod and corn. The Indian people was invited to join the party out to hunt deer as a food together with the people of colonial In the following times, Thanksgiving was celebrated in every year, but have not been declared Thanksgiving as a holiday. A celebration across the country until the women's magazine editor “Sarah Josepha Hale”of the Godey's Lady's Book making campaign to the U.S. senate in 1863 so the President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving as a holiday throughout the country until today.

At present Thanksgiving celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November every year regularly. Government offices will stop working both Thursday and Friday and opening on next Monday. Family members who lived in different states will try to return home to visit their family during this Thanksgiving day. The travelling in this timing of every year will be very crowded.

A housewife and husband often buy and prepare turkey, yam and pumpkin. In the morning of Thanksgiving day, turkey will be roasted alongside with dishes, which often consist of baked, yam and sauces and the dessert is always pumpkin pie. In the late morning family member will watch a television for the different types of balloon parade at the Macys department stores held annually in New York. After parade finish, the family members will start eating turkey together and then most of them may watch the American football. In next Friday, a lot of people who like shopping always go buying things at the mall.

 The Friday after Thanksgiving day called “Black Friday” which is the day started buying Christmas gifts for each other.

Dr. Jim Lambert, the scientists from New York explained that “Black Friday” is the Friday after Thanksgiving day that people went out shopping together in most crowded of the year. Why today is called “Black Friday” because people often go shopping very crowded at the different department stores. The department stores which had no profit during the past several months and they could get a lot of profit during this “Black Friday”.