| Music: Autumn Colors Thanksgiving Pages 2008 - Index Autumn Pages 2008 - Index Friday's Journal Index The Past Whispers - Home Old New Orleans |
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| Let us be as thankful as the pilgrims at their feast, Embrace our families and our friends, be kind to man and beast. Let us share the harvest and, as we go our way, Be thankfully rejoicing on this, Thanksgiving Day. -- Author Unknown |
| The year has turned its circle, the seasons come and go. The harvest is all gathered and chilly north winds blow. Orchards shared their treasures, fields, their yellow grain, So, open wide the doorway, Thanksgiving comes again! |
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| A grateful heart unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough. It turns a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. -- Melody Beattie |
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| PILGRIMS POINT - THE MAYFLOWER STEPS The Mayflower made its first landfall at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts on the 11 November 1620 after 66 days at sea. There the Mayflower Compact, the first democratic document written in America, was composed and signed. "And upon the 11th of November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good harbor and a pleasant bay....a harbor wherein a thousand sail of ships may safely ride." -- from Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Presented May 19, 2000 by the Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum and the Town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
| The Pilgrims watch The Mayflower depart for England. |
| First winter: the Pilgrims going to Church. |
| The Feast: First Thanksgiving. |
| The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these, who, nonetheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. -- H. H. Westermayer |
| Pilgrims Sarcophagus on Cole's Hill - contains the remains of those who died the first winter; Plymouth, MA. |
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| Plymouth Rock/Monument, Plymouth, MA. |
| Some artifacts from the passengers of The Mayflower, including the oil lamp of my 8-g-grandfather, Edward Doty. |
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| Thou hast given so much to me, give one thing more - - a grateful heart. -- George Herbert |
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| Norman Rockwell's classic Saturday Evening Post cover in honor of Thanksgiving. |
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