Unlike most holidays when people traditionally go out somewhere to celebrate, Thanksgiving is most commonly celebrated at home, with family and friends. In the United States, in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt established the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. However, there were two very early Catholic thanksgiving celebrations in what is now the United States, and one of them also involved a meal with the Native Americans. In 1541, the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led a thanksgiving Communion celebration at the Palo Duro Canyon in what is now West Texas., and in 1565, Pedro Melendez de Aviles and 800 settlers gathered for a thanksgiving meal with the Timucuan Indians in St. Augustine, Florida. Of course the most famous celebration is the harvest feast celebrated in the autumn of 1621 between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Squanto, who was a Catholic Patuxet Native American, taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn and served as an interpreter for them. But according to the historians, the pilgrims never repeated what most people refer to as the first Thanksgiving feast. In fact, most devoutly religious pilgrims observed a day of thanksgiving with prayer and fasting, not feasting. Yet even though this harvest feast was never called Thanksgiving by the pilgrims of 1621, it has become the model for the traditional Thanksgiving celebrations in the United States because detailed firsthand accounts of this feast were written by both Edward Winslow and William Bradford. On July 8, 1630, puritan settlers observed the first Thanksgiving of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England, and in 1777, George Washington and his army on their way to Valley Forge, stopped in blistering weather in open fields to observe the first Thanksgiving of the new United States of America. Later, in 1789, then President Washington declared November 26, 1789 as a national day of “thanksgiving and prayer.” Thanksgiving was celebrated off and on, but in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln resumed the tradition of presidents issuing thanksgiving proclamations, and ever since that date, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.