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After a long hard year when, were it not for their native friends, the pilgrims would surely have perished, they were ready for a celebration. Their first harvest was bountiful and they wanted to glorify God's providence and show their gratitude for those who had helped them. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted for three days in December, 1621.
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The Following Year With Help from the local indians Help, The Pilgrims Had a good harvest . They Thanked Good For The Harvest With Three Days of Prayer and feasting inthe fall of 1621.
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3 days! but it really was not considered a holiday until president Lincon declared it a holiday in 1863 and he was the first one to do this.
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The exact days of the first Thanksgiving are not known. It is believed this celebration extended for several days and it is known that it occurred during the Fall of 1621.
The first Thanksgiving was a three-day long celebration.
Thanksgiving Unwrapped showed that the first Thanksgivings were celebrated for 3 days.
The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was not called that by the Pilgrims. They did not feel it was an event to be thankful for and called it a "Harvest Festival" in celebration of the colony's first successful harvest. For them it was strictly religious giving thanks to the Lord.
equinoxes, solstices, the first planting and the first harvest
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. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states.