Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
On Thanksgiving, families and friends gather for a reunion, a day of thanks, and a festive meal. Some people attend a religious service on the eve before or day of Thanksgiving.
In giving thanks, people are grateful for a wide variety of blessings in their lives and for events in which they felt God played a role in helping them. They appreciate the bountiful food of the harvest season, share food with guests, and donate food through charities.
The Thanksgiving dinner is usually served during the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day. Often guests bring food items or help with cooking in the kitchen as part of a happy, communal meal. When the family and guests come to the table to eat, a grace to thank God is said before partaking of the meal. In keeping with the holiday theme of giving thanks, during the socializing or the meal, people talk about what they are thankful for or tell about experiences during the past year which have caused them to feel grateful.
In the United States, certain kinds of food are traditionally served at Thanksgiving meals. First and foremost, turkey is usually the featured item on any Thanksgiving feast table (so much so that Thanksgiving is sometimes referred to as "Turkey Day"). Stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn (maize), other fall vegetables, and pumpkin pie are commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner. All of these primary dishes are actually native to the Americas or were introduced as a new food source to the Europeans when they arrived.
In the United States, Thanksgiving is a four-day weekend vacation in school and college calendars. Most businesses close only for the Thursday of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Eve, on the Wednesday night before, is traditionally one of the busiest nights of the year for bars and clubs, both in terms of sales and volume of patrons, as many students have returned to their hometowns from college.
On Thanksgiving Day, families and friends usually gather for a large meal or dinner, the result being that the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
In giving thanks, people are grateful for a wide variety of blessings in their lives and for events in which they felt God played a role in helping them. They appreciate the bountiful food of the harvest season, share food with guests, and donate food through charities.
The Thanksgiving dinner is usually served during the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day. Often guests bring food items or help with cooking in the kitchen as part of a happy, communal meal. When the family and guests come to the table to eat, a grace to thank God is said before partaking of the meal. In keeping with the holiday theme of giving thanks, during the socializing or the meal, people talk about what they are thankful for or tell about experiences during the past year which have caused them to feel grateful.
In the United States, certain kinds of food are traditionally served at Thanksgiving meals. First and foremost, turkey is usually the featured item on any Thanksgiving feast table (so much so that Thanksgiving is sometimes referred to as "Turkey Day"). Stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn (maize), other fall vegetables, and pumpkin pie are commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner. All of these primary dishes are actually native to the Americas or were introduced as a new food source to the Europeans when they arrived.
In the United States, Thanksgiving is a four-day weekend vacation in school and college calendars. Most businesses close only for the Thursday of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Eve, on the Wednesday night before, is traditionally one of the busiest nights of the year for bars and clubs, both in terms of sales and volume of patrons, as many students have returned to their hometowns from college.
On Thanksgiving Day, families and friends usually gather for a large meal or dinner, the result being that the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
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