Well, it's very good when all the family meets together. It is very nice. On the fourth Thrusday in November everyone is ready for one of the biggest meals of the year. Mother is up early to put the turkey into the oven and to prepare the meal, while Father and the children help get ready for the guests. Thanksgiving commemorates the pilgrims' first harvest in the New World.
People eat a large meal with turkey and pumpkin pie.
The first national Thanksgiving, proclaimed by G eorge Washington, was celebrated on November 26, 1789. It was in 1863, however, that President Abraham Lincoln declared it an annual holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. In 1941, Congress declared Thanksgiving Day a legal holiday. The basis of the stuffing is usually white bread, but in the South it may be rice or cornbread, or in Minnesota, wild rice. If people do not like to cook they can buy stuffing in a package at the grocery store.