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Thanksgiving Day Is For Bonding Families
By Imogen T Stubbs
Thanksgiving Day is great for TV lovers across America! Dads
will grunt and yell over the Thanksgiving Classic football games.
The kids will love Garfield’s Thanksgiving and the Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving Special.
Your teens will appreciate "Pieces of April," "Ice
Storm" or "Planes Trains and Automobiles." Moms
will like "Hannah and her Sisters," "What’s Cooking"
or "Home For the Holidays." There are also many family
specials everyone, young and old, can enjoy, like the Macy’s Thanksgiving
Day Parade!
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Whether you’re one of the Thanksgiving feast cooks or you are
just anxiously awaiting the dinner hour, you can get up bright
and early to catch Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade from 9am - 12pm
(EST) Thursday morning. The annual parade began in 1924, hosted
by Macy’s Department Store in New York City to celebrate American
heritage in a European festival fashion.
The first parade attracted a massive audience of 25,000 people
lined up along 34th Street. In 1927, large animal-shaped balloons
made by Goodyear replaced the live animals. Initially, the balloons
were designed to be released and they would float for days.
Thanksgiving Parades All Around The Country
Whoever found the deflated balloons could mail it back to Macy’s
to win a prize. Radio stations began broadcasting the Thanksgiving
Day parade in 1941 and the NBC TV station followed suit in 1952,
broadcasting to over 44 million viewers. Other notable parades
include: the Parade Spectacular in Connecticut, the Gimbel’s parade
in Philadelphia, the McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago,
as well as annual parades in Seattle, Houston, Detroit and Fountain
Hills.
This Thanksgiving Day, there are a number of interesting movies
exploring family dynamics that more than one adult will find intriguing,
funny and ultimately heart-warming. "Home For the Holidays,"
with Claire Danes, Anne Bancroft and Robert Downey Jr, and directed
by Jodie Foster, portrays a nightmarish, yet hilarious, Thanksgiving
dinner. "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) is arguably
one of Woody Allen’s best movies.
Starring Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine and Woody Allen,
the story is set in a Central Park West apartment, where family
dynamics is explored in an offbeat way. "What’s Cooking"
(2000) with Kyra Sedgwick, Dennis Haysbert and Alfred Woodard,
is set in Los Angeles’ Fairfax district and shows a Thanksgiving
dinner from very ethnic perspectives. There’s no shortage of drama
in the Nguyen immigrants’ Thanksgiving, about an estranged husband,
family secrets, homosexuality, affairs, guns and pregnancy.
Family Bonding On Thanksgiving Day
While TV may not be the first thing you think of with regards
to Thanksgiving Day, there are many fantastic options for family
bonding. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade carries a universal
appeal and your kids might love it so much you’ll consider trekking
down there one year to see it for yourself! People celebrate Thanksgiving
in many different ways, with one of those ways being festive movies.
Kids may look forward to Charlie Brown and Garfield all year
long, which will give you just enough time to get that bird in
the oven before the company arrives and the onslaught of "are
we eating yet" begins.
About the Author:
Imogen T Stubbs has written a number of articles on kitchen, food
and cooking including First
Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving
Feast, Hot
Water, Refrigerator
Water Filter, Water
Filtering System, Whole
House Water.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
There is just something about fall that brings out the best in
everyone. You celebrate many different holidays during the final
months of the year but perhaps one that most people share is Thanksgiving.
This holiday is celebrated in many different countries. It may
not be in November as it is celebrated in the United States but
it is still an important day for friends and loved ones to gather
together and be thankful for all that they have. If you are hosting
a big gathering, you need to make sure you have the right supplies
for the job.
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