|
Re: Anybody going to McDonalds today?
Cathy F. wrote:[color=blue]
> Huh?? Thanksgiving idea from *Easter*? (Easter's a completely different
> ball of wax.) Thanksgiving (in the U.S. - I don't know they whys &
> wherefores of Canada's) is based on your harvest home festival, just tweaked
> to fit the Pilgrims' situation, & made a nat'l. holiday w/ a fixed date by
> Lincoln in the mid-1800's.[/color]
PMSL - sorry i was reading all about these national days and got my
words confused while i was at it :) Its been a long week, sorry! :)
For completeness:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving[/url]
Wikipedia- "Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day
holiday to give thanks (traditionally to a God), for the things one has
at the close of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving
is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada it is
celebrated on the second Monday in October. In the United Kingdom,
Thanksgiving is another name for the Harvest festival, held in churches
across the country on a relevant Sunday to mark the end of the local
harvest, though it is not thought of as a major event (compared to
Christmas or Easter) as it is in North America, where this tradition
taken by early settlers became much more important. Other European
countries, such as Germany, also have harvest-thanks (Erntedank)
celebrations which are perceived to be rather minor and mostly rural
holidays.[1]"
|
