the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, today marks the 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving . The first Thanksgiving was celebrated after the harvest 400 years ago this autumn, in 1621. The exact date is unknown. The feast was celebrated by the Pilgrims, the breakaway Puritan sect that founded Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts in 1620, and it was joined by the neighboring Native American tribe, the Wampanoags.
America became a happy “Land of Boundless Opportunities” only after the Pilgrims rejected socialism. Before then, it was a miserable land of hunger, anger, resentment, and death.
No American holiday is more universally honored or the cause for as much goodwill and family togetherness as Thanksgiving Day. Today it is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November, but the American tradition of a special day of thanksgiving has as its foundation the Pilgrim harvest festivities of 1621. This year, 2021, marks the 400th anniversary of that celebration. Over the centuries millions of Americans have followed the example of the Pilgrims, with the result that Thanksgiving Day has become the great American tradition of American families stopping from work to celebrate and give thanks for the mercy and goodness of God.
