Thanksgiving is special for our family because like so many families our adult children live around the country.
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Let's say you go home for Thanksgiving break and your grandmother says, "What have you been doing at Yale?"
如果你感恩节假期回家 你奶奶问你,你在耶鲁都学了点什么“
There's lyric poetry, there's love poetry, there are proverbs, there are psalms of thanksgiving and lament.
有抒情诗,有爱情诗,有谚语,有感恩,悲叹时的圣咏诗。
I'm from Livingston,Tennessee. Thanksgiving at my family was always a time when brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles,cousins, we all got together.
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They were offered in thanksgiving or upon the successful completion of a vow.
在感恩节供奉,或者达成一个誓言的时候供奉。
I remember my father drove a bus and my mother was a waitress, and so we often didn't get to have Thanksgiving together.
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You have the thanksgiving offering.
感恩节祭品。
This week on our program, we ask some people to share their favorite memories of Thanksgiving Day.
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Sarah Josepha Hale was a magazine editor and writer who campaigned for a Thanksgiving holiday.
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Those who survived the first difficult years held harvest festivals and religious celebrations of thanksgiving.
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Many families also bring out their finest table settings the "good china" for Thanksgiving.
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"Oh,I think a recent Thanksgiving when my son and I had a turkey cook-off.
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Jaetyn Wang wants to know if Americans eat turkey at times other than Thanksgiving.
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"Worst. The worst was also the funnest, 'cause I got up early Thanksgiving day and we went to the Burwick Marathon, but it's a nine-mile road race.
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And Thanksgiving also, in my early days when I was a child, the kids would all get to play, maybe we hadn't seen each other for a while.
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And we usually get at least part of them together for Thanksgiving."
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George Washington issued the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation in seventeen eighty-nine.
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It established,by law, the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
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"Can you think of one of your most fond Thanksgiving memories?"
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"And what is one of your fondest Thanksgiving Day memories?"
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Presidents have issued Thanksgiving proclamations every year since eighteen sixty-three.
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But there are no official "rules" for a Thanksgiving meal.
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The whole concept of Thanksgiving was a little bit bizarre.
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In France, the main celebration is Christmas, not Thanksgiving."
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Traditionally the meat served on Thanksgiving is turkey.
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And Thanksgiving was just a really,really special time.
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"What about your worst Thanksgiving memory?"
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Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgiving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.
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And once again, its about the journey. Its about locality. So we want people to pinpoint where they are now and to tell a story related to their own immigrant experience. One woman in Indianapolis,Indiana wrote about feeling very un-American while celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents.
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It began with this news: READER: "The Christianized Indians in some parts of Plimouth, have newly appointed a day of Thanksgiving to God for his Mercy in supplying their extreme and pinching Necessities under their late want of Corn, & for His giving them now a prospect of a very Comfortable Harvest.
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