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Ka|»|Mhann«M*k Vw» Staff 1 ril*r Americans are used to the picture of Thanksgiving—a group of Pilgrims and Vadians seated -around a harvest table, so they tend to think of the holiday as being peculiarly American. Actually, almost every culture has celebrated some kind of harvest festival as well as feasts of thanksgiving to God for good fortune. The earliest feast of this kind that we know about was the Hebrew Feast of the Tabernacle.
In England, rulers made thanksgiving proclamations for special occasions. The first of these that we are sure of is the one issued on September 8. 1588 following the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
More recently, we know about. two English thanksgivings in the nineteenth century: one in February of 1872 for the recovery of the Prince of Wales: and one in June of 1887 for the Queen's jubilee.
The first American Thanksgiving was at Plymouth in 1628, the first autumn after the Pilgrims landed. That small group, much reduced by death since the start of their journey had endured unspeakable hardship to remain in the New World. They lived in the most primitive huts and. until their crops came in. ate the dried and rotting food they had carried with them on the ships.
Inland from the New England coast, stretching all
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