Last week we were celebrating the traditional festivity where relatives, friends and co workers thank for all the blessing gotten during this year.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving a traditional celebration in the United States and Canada held in these countries on different days: in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada on the second Monday in October. Usually in this festival they gather around a family and friends to share a banquet table. Although it is religious in origin is considered a secular holiday.

On Thanksgiving in North America has its origins in a mixture of European and Aboriginal traditions. In Europe, festivals were held before and after harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and celebrate after hard work along with the rest of the community. Native Americans also celebrated the end of the harvest. When Europeans arrived in what would America for the first time, they brought their own traditions from the continent, celebrating the end of their journey, peace and good harvest. Although the origins of Thanksgiving day are similar in Canada and the United States, Americans tend not to celebrate the contributions made in Plymouth, Massachusetts, while Canadians do not celebrate the contributions on the island of Newfoundland.

In the United States, the modern tradition of Thanksgiving Day has its origins in 1621, at a celebration in Plymouth, in the state of Massachusetts. There is also evidence that Spanish explorers in Texas held celebrations on the continent earlier in 1598, and gratitude parties in the colony of Virginia. The festival was held in 1621 in gratitude for a good harvest. In later years, the tradition continued with civilian leaders such as Governor William Bradford, who planned to celebrate the day and aid in 1623. Since the beginning Plymouth Colony did not have enough food to feed half  the 102 settlers , natives of the Wampanoag tribe helped the Pilgrims giving see  ds and teaching them how to fish.

The place took place the first day of Thanksgiving in the US, and even on the continent, is a subject of constant debate. Writers and teachers Robyn Gioia and Michael Gannon University of Florida have indicated that the first celebration of this day in what is now the United States was conducted by the Spanish on September 8, 1565, in what is now is St. Augustine, Florida.

Also, several historians say the first celebration of Thanksgiving was held in Virginia, not in Plymouth. Thank services were routine in what would become the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1607.      Annually the department store chain Macy's makes a grand parade through the streets of Manhattan, New York, attracting millions to Broadway Avenue to see the huge giant balloons and witness performances by guest artists.