The American holiday of Thanksgiving has its origins in the celebration of a successful harvest by
the Puritans -- the first permanent European settlers in New England -- after many deaths on the trip to America, a difficult first year and a summer drought. There may or may not have been a communal dinner. The settlers may or may not have invited the local natives to join them.
There is no record that the Puritans lined up at midnight to go shopping. Few of them played or watched football. And I am pretty sure that no Puritans put up Christmas decorations three weeks before Thanksgiving. (But I hope they had turkey, cranberry sauce and pies.)
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
the Puritans -- the first permanent European settlers in New England -- after many deaths on the trip to America, a difficult first year and a summer drought. There may or may not have been a communal dinner. The settlers may or may not have invited the local natives to join them.
There is no record that the Puritans lined up at midnight to go shopping. Few of them played or watched football. And I am pretty sure that no Puritans put up Christmas decorations three weeks before Thanksgiving. (But I hope they had turkey, cranberry sauce and pies.)
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
They were probably thankful though. Thankful for a lot of things that we now take for granted.
ReplyDeleteHave a beautiful one Jack.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving dad:)
ReplyDeleteyou don't think they went black friday shopping? ;) beautiful flowers! happy thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteJack, In addition to your historical facts, I always thought that the feast provided the Puritans was the first welfare dinner from the Native food shelf. Hope that they were thankful, as many of us are for our privileges!! May you enjoy the day. Gosh! Only 3 NFL games today!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so confused now about the 'true' story.
ReplyDeleteHappy Turkey Day!
Beautiful composition with fine colors!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, Jack.
Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteMost colorful and happy photo. May you have a very happy Thanksgiving with all the trimmings.
ReplyDeleteThe holiday certainly has evolved.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Jack!
Thank you for the smiles and giggles to start the day -- Thanksgiving and all others as well!! Beautiful capture for the day! Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving, Jack, eat well and enjoy!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, Jack!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they were thankful.
ReplyDeleteWe don't even have Thanksgiving but we are getting 'Black Friday' here nevertheless. It creeps in more year on year. And that's another prod to feel DISsatisfied, not thankful. That nagging feeling that you might bag a bargain if only you had the time, energy, foresight to get involved... Who needs that?
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Jack!
ReplyDeleteLike Jenny said, we are having Black Friday sales here too but they started today so I hit some stores this morning.
Thank you for the beautiful Thanksgiving bouquet. We skipped the turkey and had fresh oysters!
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Genie
Nice flowers. I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteHope it was a wonderful day for you!
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