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Holidays from Your Country
I thought maybe I would start this topic...
Since Kaz was asking me about the American tradition of Thanksgiving...
So here we go:
A Brief History of Thanksgiving in America:
In 1621, after a hard and devastating first year in the New World the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful.
There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke cured over fires.
They found they had enough food to put away for the winter.
The Pilgrims had beaten the odds.
They built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors.
Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that was to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.
The custom of an annually celebrated thanksgiving, held after the harvest, continued through the years.
During the American Revolution (late 1770's) a day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom.
By the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day.
In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving.
Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.
How we celebrate it:
Our friends and family come over and eat and eat all day...
Why we eat what we eat:
Of all the Thanksgiving symbols the Turkey has become the most well known.
The wild turkey is native to northern Mexico and the eastern United States
The Menu:
ROAST BREAST OF TURKEY
MASHED POTATOES WITH GRAVY
HOMEMADE STUFFING
GLAZED CARROTS
CRANBERRY SAUCE
ROLLS WITH BUTTER
PUMKIN PIE FOR DESSERT
A typical Thanksgiving dinner plate:
And since it's coming soon...
Hope this helps !! 
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Re: Holidays from Your Country
Wow Christy!
Thanks for that 
I'd always wondered about Thanksgiving.
There is a story about it on the news every
year.
Does the President save a turkey?
I've never had pumpkin pie, it sounds nice.
Pumpkin is roasted or mashed here, and
not used as a dessert.
Speaking of pumpkins, Halloween is comming
too. Do you dress up for that?
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@Kaz...I hope it works out...
@Star...
Yeah, I think the President does something like that,
but I don't pay a lot of attention to it, so I don't know the details... 
So you don't celebrate Halloween in Australia? 
It's one of my favorite holidays...
A Brief History of Halloween:
We trace the history of this holiday from its rather serious beginnings 2000 years ago to today's celebration of tricks and treats.
Although trick-or-treating itself can be traced to Irish immigrants who brought the idea to the United States in the 1800s,
other customs of Halloween date back much further.
The Irish celebration of Halloween (Hallow "E'en" for "evening" ) comes from a religious feast --
All Hallows Day, better known today as All Saints Day.
Since the ninth century, Christians have celebrated All Hallows Day on November 1 in honor of deceased holy persons,
or saints, referred to as "Hallows."
The Christian Halloween adopted traditions from a much older Celtic holiday.
More than 2000 years ago, the Druids observed a festival called Samhain,
during which the god of the dead, they believed, came back to earth accompanied by ghosts and goblins.
The Celtic people wore animal skins and animal heads to hide from these evil spirits,
and Druid priests burned sacrifices to appease the spirits.
Today's popular Halloween colors recall the orange bonfires against the black nighttime skies.
Costuming expanded from animals and spooky creatures to saints and, as we see today,
to personalities in the popular culture.
The most common tradition in today's Halloween, trick-or-treating, is a reenactment of
Irish beggars going to the homes of the rich on All Hallows Eve to ask for food or money.
If the rich refused, evil spirits -- so the beggars said -- would destroy their homes.
Trick-or-treating became widespread in America in the 1940s.
Costumed children went house-to-house asking for small handouts, usually candy.
In return, no tricks would be played.
What do we do?
We dress up in costums and go to parties...
Bob for apples...
We carve pumkins...
Younger children go trick or treating...
Older kids go to fixed up haunted houses...
See this is me and my sis dressed up ready to go trick or treating...
With our carved pumkin behind us...
And that's Halloween in a nutshell...
And by the way...
Happy Halloween to everyone !!
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@ Christy,
When I was growing up it was'nt celebrated
but I loved the sound of it, it would have been great fun to go trick or treating. There were scary movies on tv but that's
about it.
But the last few years it's started to take off and we get litle gremlins and ghosts
turning up on the door step looking for lollies. They surprised me last year and the only thing I had was fruit. So there were some grumpy goblins leaving my house.
Luckily we did'nt get egged. 
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We usually have a cheesecake, fruit or something else for dessert. 
