I'm sorry I lost the original source I got it from.
For what it's worth, I am descented from John and Priscilla Alden (two different ways) and eight others present at the first Thanksgiving dinner. I had 3 other relatives present but not ancestors.
That and knocking on my door will get you a turkey sandwich.
Happy Thanksgiving y'all.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Impossible to explain Thanksgiving to the French because it requires having the virtue of Gratitude.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, as well.
This was a great article!!!!!!!!!
Happy ThanksGiving from a descendant of Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and Oceanus Hopkins (born on the voyage over).
Very good article ... LOL
I'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS - Art Buchwald
In 1948, an American innocent named Art Buchwald set sail for Paris, France, determined to crash Hemingway's moveable feast and make himself famous. What's more, he did it.
Now he remembers those golden years--when he wrote for the Paris Herald Tribune, fell in love, spoofed Hemingway, dined with gangsters, and crashed costume balls in Venice. Everything that has made Buchwald one of the world's best-loved writers is in this funny, enchanting, poignant book.
"HONEST AND MOVING . . . A CONSUMMATE STORYTELLER."
--The New York Times Book Review
"ROLLICKING . . . The book gallops and gambols along. . . . Buchwald is a master of the anecdote."
--The Baltimore Sun
Happy Thanksgiving, LonePalm. And to all.
Thanksgiving should be an international holiday, at least for the allies. Now France may not agree unless they elect a pro-American government...
Economic development using only available raw materials located in an undeveloped environment was once central to the national consciousness in the United States. European monarchies made initial capital outlays to explore the new world. However, expenditure by national governments did not develop the western hemisphere. Economic innovations such as the corporate form enabled almost any European entrepreneur to access sufficient capital to finance journeys for commercial benefit. New world development flowed from the corporate form. The great fortunes that ensued coincided with increases in European population longevity, greater knowledge and technical innovation, all of which greatly enhanced the quality of life of mankind.
In America, the establishment of the Plymouth Colony, which nearly winked out of existence in 1622, was one of our first lessons teaching the need to provide free access to capital. The founders communal means of distributing goods and services induced the colonists to “retard much employment” and “languish in misery.” To increase production, in 1623 each family received a plot of land to work and manage. The following harvest resulted in such abundance, that Governor Bradford, "sett aparte a day of thanksgiveing." Of 99 first comers in 1621, nearly half perished, while in 1623, “died not one man, woman or child.” A national day of Thanksgiving is still celebrated today.
The development of an American transportation network likewise did not develop as a result of government expenditures. In 1828 there were three miles of railway; in 1830, forty-one miles; in 1840, 2,200; in 1850, 7,500, and; in 1860, 29,000. So what accounts for this parabolic acceleration of the rate of capital formation between 1830 and 1860?
The first passenger rail line in the United States was the Ithaca & Oswego line, which ran for thirty miles connecting Ithaca to the Erie Canal. The railway opened in 1834. It was built in with private capital contributions, but the state charter reserved the right to regulate rates. The early operations of the railway were characterized by operational and maintenance problems and a series of fatal accidents. Nevertheless, the first steam powered engine began operations on the line in 1837. However, the rail line failed to thrive - on July 4th 1842, Ithaca's leaders attempted a jaunt along the line to Owego for a celebration, but they had to get out and push when the engine failed five miles short of its destination. The Cayuga & Susquehana Railroad acquired the line at a bankruptcy sale in 1843.
The New York General Railroad Act of 1850 passed partially in response to a public outcry from the scandalously close relationship between railroad companies and politicians. The act permitted the use of a totally private corporate form for railway ownership and operation, without the reserved right to set rates. The act also permitted the acquisition of property by eminent domain.
By October of 1851, coal trains began to arrive in Ithaca. The old Oswego line was rebuilt in 1855 by George Scranton and it was later incorporated into the Erie Lackawana. Ultimately, the line carried passengers and freight including up to one hundred coal cars per day.
The New York legislation became a model for other states. The sheer number of publicly traded railroad securities indicates the growth in infrastructure that resulted when transportation companies had free access to capital and the ability to own private property. In 1835 only 3 Railroads were traded on Wall Street, by 1850 38 were traded, and by 1855 railroad accounted for half the negotiable securities in the U.S.
Sadly, the mostly unrestrained entrepreneurial spirit that forged the expansion and construction of the United States has increasingly become a target for those who seek to provide for even greater good. Yet, like in the Plymouth Colony or with the Ithaca & Oswego Railway Company, nearly every attempt to legislate egalitarian ideals has resulted in the restriction of the free access to capital for entrepreneurs. The inevitable result is lost opportunity and economic stagnation.
LOL.
Buchwald was never a Dave Barry, but he did have one or two good columns in his time.
So is my pet skunk!
When we were at the R.C.A.F. base in France from 1959 to 1963, my parents got a big kick out of reading Buchwald in the Herald Trib all the time.
By the way, for what it's worth, in Quebec it's called "le jour de l'Action de grâce".