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Trail Trot on Turkey Ridge
Turkey Ridge Trail - Rockwoods
Thanksgiving Events in Sullivan 2026
Celebrate Thanksgiving 2026 in Sullivan with festive dinners, brunches, buffets, Turkey Trots, parades, family-friendly activities, Friendsgiving parties, holiday markets, volunteer opportunities, food drives, cruises, and seasonal events. Whether you're planning a traditional Thanksgiving feast or looking for unique things to do, discover the best Thanksgiving events happening in Sullivan.
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Sat, Nov 1414 West Main, Washington
FREE HOLIDAY PIE TASTING 🥧🥧
🥧🍁 YOU’RE INVITED TO ANDY’S PRODUCE HOLIDAY PIE TASTING EVENT!!! 🥧🍁 🎄 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH! 🦃 🥧 TASTE BEFORE YOU ORDER!!! 🥧 FRANKLIN COUNTY!!! Who doesn’t LOVE a good homemade pie?! 😍😍 We have something SUPER FUN planned for you!!! After you finis
Sat, Nov 141595 Acid Mine Rd
Brooke Graham's Debut at The Hangout
Brooke Graham's first time at The Hangout! We are so excited for this one! She'll be playing us some of her Texas Beach Music! We'll be hosting a "Friendsgiving" again this year! We'll provide the turkeys....please bring your favorite Turkey Day side
Friendsgiving
Wed, Nov 18402 N Missouri St, Potosi
Family Thanksgiving Lunch
You’re Invited to Our Kid Zone Thanksgiving Luncheon! 🍁 We are so grateful for our wonderful families, and we want to celebrate this season of gratitude together! Please join us for a special family Thanksgiving feast. Here are the details: • When: Wednes
Dinner & brunchFamily friendly
Thu, Nov 1910121 Crest Rd, Cadet
Community Thanksgiving Dinner
Please join us for our Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. A delicious Thanksgiving meal will be served, entertainment from our Preschool/Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten/First grade students along with the Book Fair being open for shopping! All are we
Dinner & brunch
Thu, Nov 19Calvary Assembly of God, Cuba
Community-wide Thanksgiving Service
Join us for the Cuba Ministerial Alliance Joint Thanksgiving Service. Calvary Assembly will be our Host, Chris Sheridan Pastor at Amazing Grace Church will bring our message. (November 19th, 7pm, Calvary Assembly, Chris Sheridan)
Sat, Nov 2186 Centerpoint Rd Steelville MO 65565
Sheri’s Family Thanksgiving/Christmas Dinner
Plan to eat around 1:00 pm then will do white elephant gift exchange game. Everyone brings a gift to put in the middle and pick from. If you have kids bring a kids gift for each kid you have. It doesn’t have to cost a lot. $1.00 to 10.00 preferably! It’s
Dinner & brunchFamily friendly
Sun, Nov 22Bourbon Area Community Center - BACC
Community Thanksgiving Dinner
Join us as we again gather as a community to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Dinner & brunch
Sun, Nov 222705 Highway 100, Gray Summit
Thanksgiving Banquet 2026
Join us for our annual Thanksgiving Banquet! All food is free, but we use this event as an opportunity to collect canned goods for donations to the needy. See you there!
Volunteer
Wed, Nov 25410 Lafayette St, Washington
Turkey BINGO
Wednesday, November 25th from 9:00-9:30 a.m. OR 10:30-11:00 a.m. Turkey BINGO Kids, gobble up great prizes! Two sessions, please attend one session only. Family
Family friendly
Wed, Nov 25706 US Highway 50, Union
Free Thanksgiving Meal
Once Worn is hosting a FREE Thanksgiving meal for our community, and everyone is welcome. Wednesday, November 25th 4:00–7:00 PM Once Worn We know that Thanksgiving can look different for everyone. Maybe you’re going through a difficult season and could
Volunteer
Nov 25–2620 W. 2nd Street, Washington2 days
Thanksgiving Eve at Eight Nine Eight
Getting together the night before Thanksgiving is a tradition. Back from college. Visiting with family. Loved ones from out of town. Elevate your Thanksgiving Eve this year with the best cocktails in Washington!
Wed, Nov 25Hermann, Missouri
Hermann Twinkle Tour
The Hermann Twinkle Tour is a driving tour of homes, businesses, and attractions in Hermann decorated with Christmas light displays for the holiday season. Beginning the day after Thanksgiving and running through the end of the year, the Hermann Twinkle
Wed, Nov 255925 Plantation Dr. Ste A, Hillsboro
Thanksgiving Eve
Night before Thanksgiving Party!!! Uncle Joe band live starts at 7pm
Wed, Nov 25Elk's, DeSoto, MO, De Soto
Thanksgiving Eve w/ About Time at Desoto Elks
Pre Thanksgiving party with About Time StL
Thu, Nov 26216 River Bend Road, Leasburg
Planting Tables Thanksgiving
We gather around tables where stories are honored, hearts are met, and connection becomes a place of healing. Open door: noon , dinner at 3pm Scan QR to RSVP
Dinner & brunch
Thu, Nov 26First Baptist Church Owensville
Thanksgiving 5k
If you know of anyone that does not have FB or access to the link please let me know so I can get a registration form to them. In order to receive your free shirt with registration, you have to be registered by the end of this month. Registration online
Turkey trot
Thu, Nov 26St Ignatius Loyola School, Marthasville
Annual Buffet-Style Thanksgiving Day Dinner
We saved you a seat! Grab family and friends, load up the car, and join us at our table for Thanksgiving Dinner. This is an all-you-can-eat, buffet style meal that includes turkey and all the fixings. Visitors may dine in or carry out. Meal Prices: Adult
Dinner & brunch
Nov 26–27303 S Alvarado Ave, Belle2 days
Gobble & Get Cozy: The Annual PJ Party
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR!! 🎉 We’re OPEN Thanksgiving night for our ANNUAL PJ PARTY!! 🩷🛍️ Come cozy, come comfy, and come ready to SHOP after you've had your Thanksgiving feast! Leave the men at home to watch football while you enjoy a night of shopping, c
Dinner & brunch
Thu, Nov 26485 S Main St, St Clair
Free Thanksgiving Dinner
It's almost that time! If you can volunteer that day or a couple of days ahead let Marie Flurry know. Please join us for dinner!
Dinner & brunchVolunteer
Sat, Nov 28233 W Springfield
Pictures with the Grinch
Make sure to mark your calendars. The grinch will be here again. November twenty eighth, small business saturday. At pedals and plants in sullivan, missouri. This is open to the public, and there's no charge to take photos with the grinch. Many of the loc
Thanksgiving table decor and hosting essentials
From the thermometer that saves the turkey to the tablecloth, the kids’ table and a hat for the Turkey Trot. Check delivery dates before you order.
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Instant-read thermometerThe one tool between a dry bird and a juicy oneShop on Amazon - Host
Roasting pan with rackLifts the turkey so it browns all overShop on Amazon - Host
Food warming matEvery side still warm when the last guest sitsShop on Amazon - Guest
Casserole carrierFor the dish you promised to bring, 9×13Shop on Amazon - Table
Thanksgiving tableclothAutumn leaves for the long tableShop on Amazon - Table
Cheesecloth table runnerSoft and gathered, this year’s table lookShop on Amazon - Table
Gratitude conversation cardsSomething to talk about besides the gameShop on Amazon - Kids
Coloring tableclothKeeps the kids’ table busy till pieShop on Amazon - Friendsgiving
Plates and napkins setFor Friendsgiving, and no washing upShop on Amazon - Run
Turkey hatRun the Turkey Trot dressed for dinnerShop on Amazon
Thanksgiving events near Sullivan
Turkey trots, dinners and parades in the towns nearby
Wed, Nov 25UpBar STL, St. Louis
The Night Before The Feast: Thanksgiving Eve Karaoke
FreeDinner & brunch
Nov 25–26Great Grizzly Bear, St. Louis2 days
St. Louis Official Thanksgiving Eve Bar Crawl 2026
Free – $13.71
Wed, Nov 25Atomic By Jamo, St. Louis
Voodoo Beatles "Abbey Road" at Atomic Garage for Thanksgiving Eve
Sat, Nov 28Casa Loma Ballroom, St. Louis
The Fabulous Motown Revue at Casa Loma Ballroom
Since 1621
The history of Thanksgiving
It began with a harvest. In the autumn of 1621, the Plymouth colonists and their Wampanoag neighbours shared three days of food in a good year. Nobody called it Thanksgiving then. It took two more centuries, a determined editor and a president in the middle of a war to turn it into the day we know: a Thursday in November for family, food and being grateful.
Most of what fills the day now came later. The parade, the football, the morning Turkey Trot and the long table of sides were added by one generation after another, which is why every family’s Thanksgiving looks a little different.
- 1621After their first harvest, the Plymouth colonists hold three days of feasting. Massasoit arrives with about 90 Wampanoag men, who bring five deer.
- 1789George Washington proclaims the first national day of thanksgiving, for Thursday, 26 November.
- 1846–63Sarah Josepha Hale, the magazine editor who wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, writes to five presidents asking for one national day.
- 1863In the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln makes the last Thursday of November a national Thanksgiving. It has been kept every year since.
- 1896Buffalo runs its first YMCA Turkey Trot, now the oldest footrace held every year in North America — a year older than the Boston Marathon.
- 1924Macy’s holds its first parade in New York, with animals from the Central Park Zoo. The giant balloons arrive in 1927.
- 1934The Detroit Lions play on Thanksgiving for the first time, and football becomes part of the afternoon.
- 1939–41Franklin Roosevelt moves the day a week earlier to lengthen the shopping season. People call it “Franksgiving”, so Congress fixes it for good: the fourth Thursday of November.
- 1957Canada settles on the second Monday of October for its own Thanksgiving, which goes back to 1578.
- 1989George H. W. Bush gives the first formal presidential turkey pardon, now a White House tradition.
Thanksgiving in Sullivan: frequently asked questions
When are Thanksgiving events in Sullivan in 2026?
Thanksgiving events in Sullivan run from Nov 14 to Nov 28, 2026: 23 events.
What is on in Sullivan on Thanksgiving Day?
5 events are listed for Thursday, November 26, including Planting Tables Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 5k at First Baptist Church Owensville and Annual Buffet-Style Thanksgiving Day Dinner at St Ignatius Loyola School.
Where can I have Thanksgiving dinner in Sullivan?
8 dinners, brunches and buffets are listed, including Family Thanksgiving Lunch, Community Thanksgiving Dinner and Sheri’s Family Thanksgiving/Christmas Dinner. Tables go early for the holiday, so book ahead where you can.
Are there turkey trots in Sullivan?
Yes: Thanksgiving 5k at First Baptist Church Owensville (Thu, Nov 26).
Where can I volunteer this Thanksgiving in Sullivan?
Free Thanksgiving Dinner is looking for helping hands.
What are the best Thanksgiving events in Sullivan?
The most popular on AllEvents right now are Trail Trot on Turkey Ridge at Turkey Ridge Trail - Rockwoods (Sat, Nov 28), FREE HOLIDAY PIE TASTING EVET (Sat, Nov 14) and Thanksgiving Eve Bash (Wed, Nov 25).
Are there Thanksgiving events near Sullivan?
Yes: 9 more events are listed within reach, in MAPLEWOOD, St. Louis, Florissant and Troy and more.
When is Thanksgiving 2026?
In the United States, Thursday, November 26, 2026 — always the fourth Thursday of November. Canada celebrates earlier, on Monday, October 12, the second Monday of October.
What is Friendsgiving?
A Thanksgiving meal shared with friends rather than family, usually on a day near the holiday. Many restaurants and bars host Friendsgiving dinners and parties, so you can skip the cooking.
Do I need to book Thanksgiving dinner in advance?
Yes, as early as you can. Restaurants serving a Thanksgiving menu often fill up a week or more ahead, and many offer a set menu at fixed seatings on the day.