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Around
the Table One
Thanksgiving season a family was seated around their table, looking at the annual holiday
bird. From the oldest to the youngest, they were to express their praise. When they came
to the 5-year-old in the family, he began by looking at the turkey and expressing his
thanks to the turkey, saying although he had not tasted it he knew it would be good. After
that rather novel expression of thanksgiving, he began with a more predictable line of
credits, thanking his mother for cooking the turkey and his father for buying the turkey.
But then he went beyond that. He joined together a whole hidden multitude of benefactors,
linking them with cause and effect. |
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This is part 5 of a number of facts associated with THANKSGIVING. This is an all American holiday. Although the US and Canada celebrate the day on different dates, the purpose is the same. |
Part 5 Still more first Thanksgivings: Here are a few more "first" Thanksgivings. These
were by English colonists. The list of Thanksgivings presented today and the previous
couple of days is not an exhaustive list. There are numerous more claims to the
"first" Thanksgiving. |
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In 1619, a dinner of thanks was held at Berkley Plantation on the James River in Virginia. Captain John Woodleaf held service; "Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty god." Perhaps this was to be an annual occurrence an it was possibly repeated on 1620 and 1621, by 1621 the colony was wiped out and the tradition ended. OK - Next - the 'real' first Thanksgiving. |
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