The history of the American Thanksgiving presented by the Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum which reflects life in early seventeenth-century Plymouth, Massachusetts. A site for children that offers crafts, recipes, interactive games, and a Thanksgiving book list. Thanksgiving Day is a day set aside each year for giving thanks to God for blessings received during the year. On this day, people give thanks with feasting and prayer. The holiday is celebrated in the United States and Canada.
Thanksgiving is usually a family day, celebrated with big dinners and joyous reunions.
The very mention of Thanksgiving often calls up memories of kitchens and pantries crowded with good things to eat. Thanksgiving is also a time for serious religious thinking, church services, and prayer. The First Thanksgiving observance in America was entirely religious and did not involve feasting. Va. The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God. The First Thanksgiving in New England was celebrated in Plymouth less than a year after the Plymouth colonists had settled in America.