Posts Tagged ‘Mayflower’

Reading Time: 5 minutesHistory of Thanksgiving: the Secular and the Sacred. What was the original intention of the Pilgrims coming to America, how was it that they didn’t land at their intended destination, when was the “First Thanksgiving,” and how did it become a modern holiday?

Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY OF THANKSGIVING The origin of Thanksgiving Day in America has been attributed to a harvest feast held by the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. In 1621, Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony proclaimed a day of “thanksgiving” and prayer to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first harvest in America the year after their arrival on the…