How Americans celebrate away from home
Today is the start of the Thanksgiving holidays in America. It was the Pilgrims who established the first Thanksgiving - at Plymouth Massachusetts in 1621 to celebrate their first harvest in what was to become the United States.
Thanksgiving is now a fixture on the American calendar with people often travelling long distances to be with their relatives for the celebrations.
Woman’s Hour looks at the rituals behind Thanksgiving and how American families abroad continue to mark the occasion when they’re away from home. Jenni is joined by Dr Megan Blake, Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.
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