Happy Thanksgiving to ALL

Image is from the Library of Congress


Puck Thanksgiving 1904. Illustration by Louis M. Glackens. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.25905

Artist Louis M. Glackens captures the resolute huntress after she bagged her own turkey with shotgun still in hand and a look in her eye much as a modern woman who makes the bacon as well as bring’n home the bacon.

As Jerry Garcia said;

Let us put men and women together
See which one is smarter
Some say men, but I say no
Women run the men like a puppet show

It ain't me
It's the people that say
Men are leading the women astray
But I say, it's the women today
Smarter than the man in every way


This image is from a well-known 1904 satirical magazine’s cover known by the moniker of “PUCK”. I found the image at the Library of Congress site and couldn’t resist, it is in the public domain.

Pilgrim Edward Winslow described the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving in these words:

“Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowling [bird hunting] so that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as… served the company almost a week… Many of the Indians [came] amongst us and… their greatest King, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought… And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet BY THE GOODNESS OF GOD WE ARE… FAR FROM WANT.”

In 1789, under a proclamation by George Washington, first President of the United States, America observed its initial Day of Thanksgiving to God under its new-fangled constitution.

Image from the Library of Congress

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