Posts Tagged as ‘haymaking’

November 1, 2008

Thanksgiving – The German Way

“I always wondered why your Thanksgiving is later than ours”, I asked Francesca. “Does your harvest season end that late?”
She laughed, ”American Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the harvest. It is all about the Pilgrim Fathers and eating turkey.”
In Germany, Thanksgiving is about going to church. Every first Sunday in October we celebrate “Erntedankfest” [...]