Alternatives to Black Friday
MOliver,The holiday season commences earlier and earlier each year. Forget eclipsing the Thanksgiving holidays, Hallmark began showing Christmas movies before even the Halloween decorations were removed this year. If you turn on your TV, you will notice holiday classics like A Christmas Story and Home Alone have already begun to appear amidst your regularly scheduled programming. Yet such incursions notwithstanding, the holiday season does not officially begin until the day after Thanksgiving—a date now behind us, known as Black Friday. Black Friday, lately accompanied by its…
Cypress Hills Celebrates Thanksgiving!
MOliver,Thanksgiving began centuries ago as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. When Americans refer to the “First Thanksgiving,” they are typically referring to the three day feast held by the Pilgrims and Native Americans in October 1621. After a treacherous journey across the great ocean aboard the Mayflower, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, located in Massachusetts. Despite the many hardships they faced, the Pilgrims kept their faith and most survived the first winter, with help from Squanto, a Patuxet Native American who resided with the…