Thanks Giving is celebrated here every year on the fourth Thursday of November to give thanks for the things that one has at the end of the harvest season.On Wednesday, December 4th, 1619, a group of 38 English Settlers arrived in Berkeley Hundred on the north bank of the James River,Virginia. The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a "day of thanksgiving" to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodleaf held the service of thanksgiving. Here is the section of the Charter of Berkeley Hundred which specifies the thanksgiving service: "Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
We spent the day with the Hampton's (a neighbourhood family) and we ate too much turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, pumpkin pie and mashed potato. It felt just like Christmas!
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