Americas Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration Plymouth Ma The Weekend Before Thanksgiving

PLYMOUTH, Mass. - Sept. 17, 2015 - PRLog -- America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration, The Three Day National Event including the No. 1 Historical Thanksgiving Parade, as rated by America Online, is just weeks away. Drawing an attendance of 200,000 people, it offers a family friendly environment with much to do for adults and children of all ages.

This year, the parade will have the theme “From Sea To Shining Sea” and will promote patriotism from coast to coast.

The only historically accurate chronological parade will also give tribute to many historical events and anniversaries in our custom made floats.

“Our parade takes on so much historic importance,” said deMacedo. “It’s important to celebrate and commemorate our history in our annual parade.”

There are free historic tours of the waterfront on Friday afternoon, and then the free PIDC Patriotic concert in the evening.  The concert is a wonderful event hosted by our own Channel 5 Eye-opener team from Boston.

On Saturday morning the parade opening ceremonies begin at 10:30 on the waterfront and then the much anticipated America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration Parade, a chronological visual historic storybook, is put together similar to the first parades of the Middle Ages.

All of the floats are unique and personally designed, hand crafted by volunteers, and showcase a standard of excellence in craftsmanship.  The finished product floats by the thousands who come to view this visual story book that provides an educational experience and documents our history.

We begin by honoring Wampanoag natives and the first Pilgrim settlers, including a scale model of the Mayflower. This year our “Sea To Shining Sea”, theme will feature Native Americans, Pilgrims and special commemorative floats for our highlighted events. America’s Hometown Express Train and traditional floats will provide an historic and seasonal ambiance, including the Cornucopia Float, Victorian carolers and Saint Nicholas.

Now in its sixth year, the America’s Hometown Express continues to chug along, bringing tons of food and hundreds of meals to needy families as a part of America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration the weekend before Thanksgiving.  A school bus transformed into a locomotive has collected food from a crowd of over 200,000 whose bags are put in the locomotive and coal car along the parade route.

Part of the mission of America’s Hometown Express is to inspire Americans in “America’s Hometown”, as well as around the nation to have a meal on every table during the Thanksgiving Holiday and all year. Don’t forget to bring your non-perishable food donation for the America’s Hometown Express.

Following the parade, you can wander into the Portal to the Past, striking up conversations with historic heroes past, learning their history and living the ways of the Natives, Pilgrims, and Patriots.

Visit The New England Food Festival filled with the best samples from restaurants in our area. Celebrity judges and winning chefs bring their best to the tables. Attendees are guaranteed a culinary experience like no other in New England!

Illumination 2015 is back. Join us and Plymouth 400th for the second annual Illuminate event at 4:00 PM at 1820 Courthouse Green on Court Street in Plymouth. After inspirational performances and speeches, the community is encouraged to join us in lighting a candle to signify that "One small candle may light a thousand" (Governor William Bradford)

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Saturday Night hosts our Senior Drum and Bugle Corps reunion concert at 6:30PM at Memorial Hall.   This year will prove to be another amazing show of talented musicians.  To purchase tickets visit www.usathanksgiving.com

Sunday hosts our annual Harvest Market with special vendors from the Plymouth Farmers Market. This event includes a full day of live music complimented by local farmers and food makers selling and sampling their products.

Leave feeling grateful this year and enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving Celebration for the entire family:  the Weekend Before Thanksgiving!