HaPpY ThAnKsGiViNg!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone @BPT!!
May your day be filled with family, good friends, & good food!!

~ Peace&Love

what exactly is thanksgiving if you don't mind me asking, is it like a uk Christmas with a couple or three days bank holiday?

what exactly is thanksgiving if you don't mind me asking, is it like a uk Christmas with a couple or three days bank holiday?

Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a public holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November[1] in the United States. It originated as a harvest festival. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington.[2] It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.[3] Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.[4] This feast lasted three days, and—as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow[5]—it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.[6] The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgivi...ed_States)

Happy Thanks Giving to the USA fraternity of BPT! I hope you have a turkey filled day,

We Canadians already celebrated Thanks Giving last month. Never less to all my Americans friends whereever you are, Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy belated 'turkey-day' to you too!

Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a public holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November[1] in the United States. It originated as a harvest festival. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington.[2] It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.[3] Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.[4] This feast lasted three days, and—as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow[5]—it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.[6] The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgivi...ed_States)

thank you for explaining, how different from the UK, we have a harvest festival in late September or early October, seems to be a Christian event although maybe rooted in pagan times - no public holiday through.

We are just recovering from 'Guy Fawkes Night' which is to do with an attempt to destroy the British parliament in 1600 or so, which is a pain if you have a pet dog or cat as the fireworks go on sometime either side of the allotted date which is early november.