Comments on: Happy Thanksgiving

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:49:24 +0000

Hope everyone had a very happy Thanksgiving!

By: Michael Snow

Michael Snow — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:35:54 +0000

Wahington’s and Lincoln’s proclamations would be quite startlng today. One of them might be a good addition to Daniel Darling’s good idea:
http://www.danieldarling.com/2011/11/dads-should-lead-on-thanksgiving/

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:57:33 +0000

I really don’t much care how any of our Presidents feel about Thanksgiving, but it is interesting how America’s Protestant history has shaped our views about this holiday:

How about this little item of history:

Was first Thanksgiving in St. Augustine, Fla.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
By Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The 208-foot-tall stainless steel cross at the Mission of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, Fla., was erected in 1965 to mark the 400th anniversary of the city, which is the location of the nation’s first Thanksgiving in 1565, according to Florida historians.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Forget the turkey, the silly Pilgrim hats and the buckles.

Forget Plymouth Rock and 1621.

If you want to know about the real first Thanksgiving on American soil, travel 1,200 miles south and more than 50 years earlier to a grassy spot on the Matanzas River in North Florida.

This is where Spanish Adm. Pedro Menendez de Aviles came ashore on Sept. 8, 1565. This is where he, 500 soldiers, 200 sailors, 100 civilian families and artisans, and the Timucuan Indians who occupied the village of Seloy gathered at a makeshift altar and said the first Christian Mass. And afterward, this is where they held the first Thanksgiving feast.

The Timucuans brought oysters and giant clams. The Spaniards carried from their ships garbanzo beans, olive oil, bread, pork and wine.

For what it’s worth.

By: Dave Eden

Dave Eden — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:32:06 +0000

Sorry to drag in a lowbrow reference but I fear it may be relevant. This reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit, where Thanksgiving grace before meals for the “Superfans” in Chicago was: “We’d like to thank Ditka and God for this meal”. (Or, rather “…Ditka and Gad for dis meal”.)