As we celebrate the holiday, what better time is there than now to say “Thank you” for all we have and to count our blessings.
It’s been a busy, hectic year with so much to talk about. But one thing is for sure, we all have much to be thankful for. Whether it is good health, a steady income or a strong family, we all have plenty to celebrate during this Thanksgiving season.
Living in the Lowcountry and enjoying all it has to offer, gives us that privilege as well.
While we all are not originally from here, we live here now and we make new traditions and celebrate the holiday with old friends and new friends alike.
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of a holiday that will take is until the end of the year. It’s a good time to be thoughtful and thankful.
In case you need a little Thanksgiving Day table conversation, we’ve included some Thanksgiving trivia from various news services for you:
• Thanksgiving Day is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in November.
• The first Thanksgiving Day was set aside as a celebration for the special purpose of prayer and celebrations, as a declaration from Gov. William Bradford in July 30, 1623.
• The State of New York was the first state to adopt a day of Thanksgiving in 1817 as an annual celebration and custom.
• In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of Thanksgiving.
• The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in North America.
• The Pilgrims arrived in America in December 1620, more than half did not survive the journey or the first year in America.
• The drink that the Puritans brought with them on the Mayflower was beer. It was the first beverage at the first Thanksgiving meal.
• The first Thanksgiving meal lasted three days.
• President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in the year 1789 and again in 1795.
• The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade began in the 1920’s.
• Turkeys were considered a sacrificial bird in Mexico.
• Turkeys come in these colors — heritage bronze, Narragansett, slate, bourbon red, royal palm, black and white.
• The Wild Turkey is the official state game bird of: Alabama, Oklahoma and Massachusetts.
• Turkeys lay rather large brown eggs with brown specks.
• Frozen, fully stuffed turkeys, ready to cook, were introduced in the USA in 1955.
• The typical 15-pound turkey is 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat. White meat contains less calories and less fat as compared to the dark meat.
• Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys dropped dead.
• When Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin went on the moon, they took “roast turkey” and all the trimmings with them.
• The state that consumes the most turkey annually is California.
• Wild turkeys can fly 40 mph.
• Domesticated turkeys drown in rain storms if not housed in a house.
• Wild turkey meat is all brown including the breast.
• It takes 12 weeks for a tom turkey to reach 21.75 pounds when eating 1.75 pounds of feed a day.
Happy Thanksgiving from Bluffton Today.