The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

On the 4th Thursday, November every year, Americans celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving.

It's a holiday that originated in the Americas, but has subsequently spread to many other countries around the world.

It's a holiday that's actually secular, but with some religious

overtones, and has a unique set of traditions that aren't really shared with any other holiday.

Learn more about the history and traditions of Thanksgiving on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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Tradition tells us that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 when the Pilgrims who lived in

Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts held a feast of Thanksgiving with a group of local Indians.

There were turkeys, and of course the pilgrims had big hats with buckles on them, and everyone lived happily ever after.

As is so often the case with historical legends, there's often a kernel of truth with a whole lot of embellishment which accrued over the years.

So with that, let's try to unpack the truth about the holiday we call Thanksgiving

and the traditions behind it.

For starters, the first Thanksgiving probably wasn't the first Thanksgiving,

as in it wasn't the first time a feast or celebration of Thanksgiving occurred in North America.

There were recorded celebrations of

Thanksgiving in Virginia in 1607, and the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine, Florida in 1565.

There's even a story of explorer Martin Froschbier celebrating a Thanksgiving on Baffin Island

in the far north of Canada in 1579. Not only that, but the 1621 feast held by the Pilgrims

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