LET US GO AND DO LIKEWISE

THANK GOD FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS BILL OF RIGHTS

THANKSGIVING  DAY DAWN, 2017

Thanksgiving Day, 9:00 AM.  38 degrees F at the ferry dock, 30 on the back porch.  Wind SW, light.
The sky is partly cloudy but clearing, the humidity 79%.  The barometer stands at 29.94" but is beginning to fall.  Highs today will be in the mid-30's, becoming much warmer tomorrow with showers in the morning.  It looks like it will be a gorgeous day.
   Riddle from our 9 year old granddaughter: What happened to the turkey gobbler that got into a fight?  He got the stuffing kicked out of him.

Governor Bradford of Massachusetts made this first Thanksgiving Proclamation three years after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth:

"Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.

Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the daytime, on Thursday, November 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty three and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings."

William Bradford
Ye Governor of Ye Colony

Let us go and do likewise