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Thanksgiving
The colours of late autumn: pumpkin orange, corn yellow, cranberry red and the brown of roast turkey and fallen leaves.
The colours of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, on the fourth Thursday of November, has no flag or ribbon, but it has a clear palette, taken from the harvest and the season. Tables and front doors are dressed with orange pumpkins, yellow and rust chrysanthemums, dried maize with kernels of red, blue and gold, and leaves of maple and oak. The food repeats it: the brown of the roast turkey and gravy, orange sweet potato and pumpkin pie, yellow corn, dark red cranberry sauce. Children draw turkeys with tail feathers in red, orange and yellow. For many Native Americans the day is one of mourning rather than thanks, and since 1970 a National Day of Mourning has been held at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
#E67E22Pumpkin orangePumpkins and pumpkin pie.#9B1B30Cranberry redCranberry sauce.#F2C230Corn yellowMaize, fresh and dried.#7B4A23Roast brownTurkey, gravy and fallen leaves.#B5532AOak-leaf rustAutumn leaves used as decoration.Values are fair approximations, not official shades.
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Also part of it, and being written: Orange (Pumpkin.), Brown (The colour of late autumn.).
Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Thanksgiving (United States)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.