Thanksgiving

- fourth Thursday in November every year
- thanks for the early settlers arriving in America safely
   - December the 4th, 1619, arrived at a place called Berkeley Hundred, in Virginia
- thanks given to Native Americans for teaching the pilgrims
   how to catch eels and grow corn in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- In 1941, President Roosevelt made Thanksgiving a federal holiday

Thanksgiving dinner

- roasted turkey
- mashed potatoes
- sweet potatoes
- fall vegetables
- cranberry sauce
- gravy
- pumpkin pie

bad time to be a turkey.