A play by Thomas Nashe, Summer's Last Will and Testament, (first published in London in 1600 but believed from internal evidence to have been first performed in October 1592 at Croydon) contains a scene which demonstrates several of these features.
During the event, one prayed for good harvest in the spring and said thank you for the harvest in autumn.
Harvest festival is celebrated every year on 15 August, which also happens to be the Independence day of India.
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The format, besides that of an auction of produce is sometimes accompanied by the singing of harvest festival hymns such as Come, Ye Thankful People, Come and We Plough the Fields and Scatter.
Nut roasts are also made by Canadian and American vegetarians and vegans as the main dish for Thanksgiving or other harvest festival meals.
Other events include a Civil War Re-enactment, a harvest festival, a juried quilt show, and a Halloween Trick-or-Treat.
This is the most popular of the races to be held during the season of the harvest festival Onam in Autumn on ashtamudi lake in Kollam,the cashew paradise in Kerala.
As described by ceramist Tony Franks, Duckworth's style of "Organic clay had arrived like a harvest festival, and would remain firmly in place well into the '70s".
In June, Salasaca people celebrate the harvest festival called Inti Raymi that is celebrated in all Quechua communities of the Highlands (Sierra).
The adherents of native Sunda Wiwitan belief still celebrate this annual harvest festival, such as Kanekes (Baduy) people, Kasepuhan Banten Kidul, and Cigugur.
Wangala (also known as Hundred Drums, Wanna, Wanna Rongchuwa) a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who lives in Meghalaya, Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh.