from Wiki...<br/><br/>In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a poorly documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest.<br/><br/>There's also things about it having been a religious holiday of thanks or something.<br/><br/>I had always thought it was a dinner between indians and the settlers at plymouth, Mass.?<br/><br/>Who knows anymore...My family just uses it as an excuse to get together and enjoy each other whole eating...a lot...lol<br/>