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11/23/2009 09:17:06 AM · #1 |
With the Thanksgiving holiday this week in the US, how about a "Thankful" challenge:
Create a photograph that represents something that you are thankful for, or someone you are thankful to. |
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11/23/2009 09:26:37 AM · #2 |
| I'm thankful that my birthday falls on American Thanksgiving! Here in Canada we celebrate TG a little earlier (don't know why). Could be an interesting challenge. |
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11/23/2009 10:32:32 AM · #3 |
I think I'm right in saying that Thanksgiving is what we would call Harvest Festival here in the UK.
We celebrate that in late September sometimes early October according to the moon cycle etc etc.
We really don't make a big thing of it and in fact we don't even get a day off :(
School children take gifts of food to the church that are then distributed to the needy after the services are over.
I don't quite know why I posted that but hey ho lol :)
Message edited by author 2009-11-23 10:32:40. |
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11/23/2009 11:05:43 AM · #4 |
"In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. This harvest meal has become a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops. Native American groups throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Creek and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America."
... from History.com |
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11/23/2009 11:39:39 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by citymars:
"In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. This harvest meal has become a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops. Native American groups throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Creek and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America."
... from History.com |
Excellent; many thanks for posting that |
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11/23/2009 01:54:27 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Lutchenko:
Excellent; many thanks for posting that |
You're welcome; it was new info for me. It was your comment about the Harvest Festival that led me to google Thanksgiving history. I hadn't given much thought to the origins, I merely had vague memories of grade school stories about pilgrims and native americans (back then we referred to them as indians). |
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