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Happy Thanksgiving

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On the First Thanksgiving day of this blog’s life I choose to celebrate this occasion to thank you and add you in my thanks giving spirit with the following prayers.

“Oh God of all creations:  You have cared for the earth and have filled it with your riches.  Abundance flows in your steps, through the pastures and wilderness.  You provide for our land, softening it with showers, bathing it in light and blessing it with exponential growth.

On this occasion of our thanksgiving we as blog networking group take rest from our labors to consider your many blessings.  We thank you for our freedoms and for the opportunity to contribute our skills, our attributes our values and personal growth towards the good of the society.  Click Here To Read More...

Introduction and History Of Thanksgiving

The first Thanks giving day and Thanksgiving dinner was celebrated officially by Governor William Bradford in Plymouth Plantation Massachusetts.  This celebration occurred in 1621, after the first harvest of the colonists, four men were sent out for fowling on the Thanks Giving Day, around September 30th.  The menu for the Thanks giving Dinner was fish, eel, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, and plums.

Governor William Bradford entertained  “greatest king Massaoyl” and the native Indians (Wampanoag Indians tribe) in this first Thanks Giving Dinner.  This feast lasted three days.

In 1623. After a horrible drought caused the actual celebration. “Thanksgiving” occurred and it was called thanksgiving because the drought finally came to an end after a period of intense praying by the colonists.

In 1644, after almost twenty years , New York celebrated Thanks giving, after Dutch citizens of New York killed nearly 600 Indians and then marched home and “cheerfully” ate the Thanksgiving Dinner.  There was a big menu with lots of extremely rich dishes, like “pumpion pye” .  That was the name of the pumpkin pies in those days, other entrees cooked with rosemary, parsley, sweet marjoram, nutmeg, pepper, six cloves, etc.  Click Here To Read More...