NEW YORK.- On the occasion of the traditional Thanksgiving dinnernext Thursday throughout the United States, Congressman Adriano Espaillat and the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, delivered hundreds of turkeys in advance to the same number of low-income families in the Upper Manhattan.
The free delivery was carried out last Friday at 210 Sherman Avenue, office of the Northern Manhattan Democratic Club, by the assistant to the congressman, Annery Batista.
“He will do the same this Monday and in greater numbers, but at the United Palace Theater, located on Broadway at 175th Street, in the same sector,” Batista reported.
It is a tradition in Espaillat to deliver thousands of turkeys to low-income residents in its 13th District, which makes up the sectors of Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill, and the North-West Bronx. , who have re-elected him for his good legislative work.
“Thanksgiving Day”
“Thanksgiving” is a national holiday that is celebrated on the last Thursday of November, as important as Christmas itself, which is why it is a national holiday in the US, and also marks the beginning of Christmas parties in a formal way.
It is a family celebration, with a lot of food, and a dinner in which you give thanks for what you have, but what is this celebration for?
Its origin dates back to the year 1620 with the arrival of the Mayflower, a ship with more than 100 English colonists that crossed the Atlantic to settle in the New World.
This group of settlers had strong religious convictions, although they were opposed to the beliefs of the Anglican Church and in the end had to undertake the crossing of the ocean to escape from the gallows.
They settled in what is now the current State of Massachusetts, specifically in the historic colony of Plymouth Rock.
