The Time For Giving Thanks..

First and foremost the staff and crew and Triple T Tire & Auto service would like to wish each of you and happy and bountiful Thanksgiving Holiday, And thank you for your continued service.

Have you ever wonder what started this tradition? I have and inquiring minds would like to know.

In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest by firing guns and cannons in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The noise alarmed ancestors of the contemporary

Wampanoag Nation. That is how native people came to be present at the first Thanksgiving,

It seemed the  Wampanoag people, men in particular , were not really sure what they were being told was actually true, so they stayed around for a few days. They camped outside to see for themselves ,So there was a lot of tension as well, all of these men with guns and indian warriors were next door in the woods at night  so close by. We know it took place over three days sometime between mid-September and early November in 1621, and was considered a harvest celebration and not Thanksgiving celebration,  following a successful planting of multicolored flint corn, or maize as the called it.

         I t wasn't until 1863, during the Civil War, that Thanksgiving became a national holiday. President Abraham Lincoln furthered an idealistic Thanksgiving narrative for strategic reasons.

A woman named Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of an influential women’s magazine, had a hand in convincing President Lincoln that a national Thanksgiving holiday would help unite the war-torn country.    It was a socio-political move to try to reunite the North and the South after the Civil War to have this national holiday," says Peters, of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. It was their bright idea  to have this national holiday called Thanksgiving, and its popularity grew through time, but it was actually a pretty smart move to establish something to unite families. During the Civil War, a lot of families actually split down the middle, brothers against brothers

and fathers against sons.

Today, Native Americans commemorate Thanksgiving in different ways. Some consider it a day of mourning given the rapid colonization and displacement of their people. Others gather with their families, but the Pilgrims aren't on their minds.

Today Native American  people celebrate a number of thanksgivings throughout the year, at times such as when certain crops come in or a particular fish returns to spawn. Giving thanks is still a big part of the Wampanoag members' spiritual life.

So whatever reason you have to give thanks , just stop and think about our Military serving abroad, The first responders being called away from family, police and firefighters.. 

Thanks to each and everyone of you and again to out customers past present and future, from the bottom of our hearts we thank you.  Ronnie B