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Thanksgiving (Tyrnican: Erntedankfest) is a Surrowese holiday that takes place on the second Monday of October. Celebrated as an official holiday since the late nineteenth century, Thanksgiving has become the busiest travel day in Surrow. (TBC)

History

Thanksgiving on Surrow is believed to have evolved from harvest festivals that occur in the autumn in Rythene and Tyrnica, with historian Harvey Riberg writing in 1974 that "most of the customs associated Thanksgiving on Surrow can ultimately be traced to the Rythenean harvest supper."

(TBC)

Customs

• Surrowese people usually travel to their home communities
  • home communities being where their ancestors came from on Surrow (i.e. place where the first fishermen on that family set up shop)
  • busiest travel day of the year, probably a custom for those who can afford it to take a bus to their town rather than take their car (both because gas is pricey but also because bus companies jack up prices on Thanksgiving weekend)
• feast at a community centre involving everyone that can fit in there or at a house of some family member who still happens to live in the outport
  • recent trend to have two or three meals at each community centre to accomodate demand
    • probably an outgrowth of having two meals (a Rythenean meal for the Rythenophones and a Tyrnican meal for the Tyrnophones) in Tern Harbour but is just as likely to be because most Surrowese community centres don't have the space to accomodate thousands of people at once
• meal itself involves:
  • a dance performance
  • reading the names of those who were lost at sea
  • saying grace
  • eating the meal
  • another dance performance

Cuisine

• a lot of fish