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Aug 25, 2023 · Subscribed. 24. 9.3K views 8 months ago #thanksgiving #harvest #EducationalVideo. What is Harvest Festival? How do people celebrate harvest around the world? In this video, we look at several...
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Aug 30, 2023 · Find out about the Harvest Festival in this bright and colourful factual video for kids! Harvest is celebrated to give thanks for the crops, which have been safely harvested. Christians...
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Nov 13, 2020 · Mini-Lecture: Harvest Festivals Around the World - YouTube. Art with Katie Cordy. 319 subscribers. Subscribed. 25. 6.7K views 3 years ago. As Thanksgiving rapidly approaches, learn about our...
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- Thanksgiving, Plimoth Plantation, Massachusetts
- Vendimia, Mendoza, Argentina
- Rice Harvest, Bali, Indonesia
- Chanthaburi Fruit Fair, Chanthaburi, Thailand
- Sukkot, Jerusalem, Israel
- Blessing of the Sea, Greece
- Olivagando, Magione, Italy
- Lammas Festival, United Kingdom
- Madeira Flower Festival, Madeira, Portugal
Communities around the globe honor the fall harvest season with fun celebrations—Here are the best destinations to plan a trip.
Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday on the fourth Thursday of November, originated in the fall of 1621, when Pilgrims celebrated their successful wheat crop and overflowing store cupboards with a three-day feast. Head to Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts to live the history of that original celebration. The hosts shared their meal of partridge, wild tur...
On the final Sunday of February, the Archbishop of Mendoza sprinkles the season’s first grapes with holy water and offers the new vintage to God, setting off a month of celebrations in Argentina’s Mendoza region. Crowds line the streets to watch a parade of competing beauty queens atop their regional floats, and the festival culminates with a spect...
Dewi Sri, the rice goddess, is venerated as a matter of course in Bali, where rice is the staple crop. During the harvest, villages are festooned with flags, and simple bamboo temples dedicated to the goddess are erected in the upstream, most sacred corners of the rice fields. Small dolls of rice stalks representing Dewi Sri are placed in granaries...
Chanthaburi, Thailand, is known for gemstones—and for its profusion of beautiful native fruits, as colorful as jewels. During the summer harvest, the annual Fruit Fair exhibits exotic durians, rambutans, longans, and mangosteens in vibrant arrangements as elaborate as Buddhist mandalas. There are produce competitions and art displays, and the openi...
Sukkot celebrates Israel’s bountiful harvests and recalls the time when the Israelites wandered the desert living in temporary shelters. Families build makeshift huts, or sukkah, with roofs open to the sky. Here they eat, and sometimes sleep, for the next seven days. Wands of willow, myrtle, and palm, together with a citron (a kind of lemon), are s...
At Epiphany, which recalls the visit of the three Wise Men to the infant Jesus, processions in Greece set off from local churches to the ocean, where a priest blesses a gold cross before hurling it into the waves. Men leap in to be first to retrieve it; the victor achieves grace, and banishes old spirits from the new year.
In Italy, Magione’s two-day festival in November celebrates both the feast day of St. Clement and the local olive harvest, bringing together everyone involved in the production of olive oil. A priest blesses the new oil at a special Mass, and the town hosts a lavish medieval dinner at its 12th-century castle.
Lammas marks the beginning of the harvest season, when food is abundant and the light begins to wane. Early Britons baked bread from the new crop to leave on church altars, and corn dolls decorated bounteous feast tables.
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Funchal’s April flower festival fills the air with fragrance and marks the arrival of spring in Portugal. Each of the island’s children brings a bloom to create the colorful Muro da Esperança (Wall of Hope), and intricate flower carpets line the streets.
Some are first-fruits festivals that recognize the start of the season and the first crops, while other harvest festivals are celebrations to give thanks for the blessing of a bountiful harvest and to mark or ensure the recurrence of the process.
Nov 4, 2017 · 1 of 12. CNN —. There are all sorts of ways to celebrate a successful harvest. In the USA of course, people commemorate the season’s bounty by giving thanks, overdosing on roast turkey, and ...
Sep 1, 2019 · 1. Backwoods Fest (Thornville) April Dray/Only In Your State. Set literally in the middle of the woods, this unique festival says goodbye to summer and hello to fall every year on the third weekend in September. Backwoods Fest features more than 300 craft vendors, bluegrass music, open-fire kettle cooked food and more. Admission is $9 per adult.
