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Wishing each and every one of you a Happy Thanksgiving.

Wiki has a lot of info about it in countries around the world.
However this below from wiki is the one small paragraph that
covers the tradition I am most familiar with. I was raised
less than 20 miles from Plymouth Rock.

On this day we give thanks to the Lord to each other and 
celebrate the blessings we received over the year behind us. 
It is a day to bring our families and friends together for a feast.
No one goes hungry today!

Gil


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from wiki:

The more familiar Thanksgiving precedent accompanied by feasting is traced to the Pilgrims and Puritans who emigrated from England in the 1620s and 1630s. They brought their previous tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. The 1621 Plymouth, Massachusetts thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. The Pilgrims celebrated this with the Wampanoags, a tribe of Native Americans who, along with the last surviving Patuxet, had helped them get through the previous winter by giving them food in that time of scarcity, in exchange for an alliance and protection against the rival Narragansett tribe.

Happy Thanksgiving all. The steam engines in my shop are cold today while the parades and football are on TV, and the holiday meal is a few hours away. Maybe tomorrow it will be back to the shop and the projects awaiting there.