From the teams of Innovation America and the Delmarva Group, Richard Bendis and JT Koffenberger wish you all a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!!!
Here are some interesting facts about Thanksgiving:
- The first Thanksgiving celebration can be traced back to the Plymouth Pilgrims in the fall of 1621.
The celebration lasted for three days and included games and food. - The first Thanksgiving feast was held to thank the Lord for sparing the lives of the survivors of the Mayflower, who landed at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. The survivors included four adult women and almost forty percent children.
- The Wampanoag chief Massasoit and ninety of his tribesmen were also invited to the first thanksgiving feast.
- Governor William Bradford invited them for helping the Pilgrims survive and teaching them the skills of cultivating the land.
- There were more Native Americans present than Pilgrims, 90 to 53.
- President George Washington.proclaimed the first 'National Day of Thanksgiving' in 1789.
- Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday in his proclamation on October 3, 1863.
- The furcula of the turkey is used in a good luck ritual on Thanksgiving Day and has also been called a wishbone or merrythought.
- The Netherlands and Canada also have a Thanksgiving Day.
