A few thoughts on Thanksgiving . . .
as illustrated by the fabulous J.C. Leyendecker (1874 - 1951), who definitely would have run afoul of the Plymouth leadership.
"I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us." - William Lyon Phelps
"You know that just before the first Thanksgiving there was one wise old Native American woman saying, Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave." - Dylan Brody
"This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over on the second boat." - Mitchell Kapor
"I celebrated Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart
"Puritanism, the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - H. L. Mencken
"My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now." - Carol Moseley Braun
#Thanksgiving #Religion #Happy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Other stories of Giving Thanks:
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| Was she on the Mayflower? |
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| What are you thankful for? |
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| Gratitude |
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