Today is Thanksgiving. It is one of the most important holidays of the year in the United States.
On Thanksgiving - which is held on the fourth Thursday of November - Americans have family feasts and give thanks for their blessings.
The usual meal includes turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, vegetables, cranberry sauce and anything else the individual family especially likes. Dessert always includes pumpkin pie.
But how did Thanksgiving get started?
There are many different legends, and experts can't seem to agree on which one is really correct.
One of the most popular legends follows.
Following a seven-week voy age across the Atlantic, the Pilgrims - the first Europeans to establish a permanent settlement in what was to become the United States - arrived in Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620.