Happy Thanksgiving

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Question: Can we ease up on Alfie and try getting into the spirit of Thanksgiving Day?

For those of you who are not familiar with this North American custom, I offer the following: The first Thanksgiving Day was observed in Plymouth Colony (first permanent settlement of current USA) in 1621 to celebrate their harvest and other blessings of the past year. The custom has continued and is now observed as a national holiday in our country. On the fourth Thursday of November each year we pause to celebrate our blessings, with family and friends when possible. I invite all of you to "HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING" wherever you live! Obviously anyone who appreciates Leicas has been blessed with exceptional taste and discernment of quality. :-)) LB

-- Luther Berry (lberrytx@aol.com), November 20, 2001

Answers

Luther:

Thanks for this.

From a Canadian, whose thanksgiving is celebrated in October, I wish you and all Americans a peaceful and reflective Thanksgiving. Seeing images from your country and other parts of the world, and travelling in some, I am truly thankful for my lot in life, even tho' God has not (yet) bought me a Mercedes Benz.

(" Oh God won't you buy me a new Leica lens, My friends all have 'spherics:- I must make amends".)

I find it ironic that the first thankgivers were really religious fanatics with guns. Be that as it may, they too were non-conformists in their own way, that being what took them away from England.

Enjoy the football, turkeys and pictures of orange pumpkins, golden leaves and frost on the hills.

Cheers

-- RICHARD ILOMAKI (richardjx@hotmail.com), November 20, 2001.


At my house we're having an "old fashioned" Thanksgiving: We'll prepare a huge feast, invite over a bunch of friends, then we'll kill them and steal their land!

The old adage that history is written by the victors is never more amply demonstrated than when it comes to major American "holidays."

-- Peter Hughes (ravenart@pacbell.net), November 20, 2001.


Despite the above cynicism, the Holiday is about being thankful for the here and now, and our spiritual blessings. Thank you for reminding us, Luther, and Happy Thanksgiving to all.

-- Ken Shipman (kennyshipman@aol.com), November 20, 2001.

In this part of the country ("the old country") it's even a month earlier. Officially the 29th of September. That being as it may, the best thing we can ever do here (apart from taking pictures) is, as Richard said, at least to now eat lots of turkey and pumpkin pie. The weather makes it my favourite time of year. Indian summer! Have fun shooting and let's all stay friends!!

-- Michael Kastner (kastner@zedat.fu-berlin.de), November 20, 2001.

Luther: Thank you for you kind wishes. I wish for you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving.

-- John Alfred Tropiano (jat18@psu.edu), November 20, 2001.


Thank you Luther, and Happy Thanksgiving to you, Alfie, and everybody in this forum. Peace to the Leica world!

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), November 20, 2001.

Happy Thanksgiving:

Here we will have the traditional meal. Baked Salmon, fried softshelled crab, baked sweet potato, shrimp pie, etc. Hope you have your traditional meal.

Art

-- Art (Art90975@aol.com), November 20, 2001.


SOUNDS GOOD!!!!

-- Emile de Leon (knightpeople@msn.com), November 20, 2001.

Thanks for the post, Luther. Thanks to all the responsible and kind folks who contribute a great wealth of personal experience, opinions, anecdotes, and Leica knowledge to our forum. Thanks to all of our curious lurkers who don't feel the need to launch anonymous snipe-attacks. (And lurkers are strongly encouraged to write in!) Thanks to Philip Greenspun who has freely provided the forum software and another year of (mostly) reliable web services. Thanks to Kodak and other film companys for making film for our cameras. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@mail.com), November 20, 2001.

Art, what part of the world are you in? Sounds a lot like Alaska! Yum.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@mail.com), November 20, 2001.


I don't know where Art is from either, but for the big Thanksgiving meal, I'm sure he, too, can -- even if worst comes to worst -- always get a Royal TS, 6 McNuggets with sweet & sour and a large coke without ice, from anywhere.

-- Michael Kastner (kastner@zedat.fu-berlin.de), November 21, 2001.

Michael Kastner, are sure about Sept. 29th.? In southern Germany it's the first Sunday in October. Ja wo samma denn? Wann a jeda san' Feiertag selber aussuacht, dann kenna ma glei d'Russn eiladn, doß die ois übernehma!

Yes, Art's menu sounds interesting. If it weren't for the salmon, I'd suggest Louisiana.

Pax et bonum,

-- Oliver Schrinner (piraya@hispavista.com), November 21, 2001.

Okay, I give up. I picked September 29 out of three encyclopedias last night at home. My calendar here at work says September 30 (for 2001) But October 6 for 2002. Both of these are Sundays. Who cares? I stick to red wine anyhow. I'll now give thanks to American, Canadian, even German life.

-- Michael Kastner (kastner@zedat.fu-berlin.de), November 21, 2001.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I'm looking forward to celebrating this holiday together with my family and counting our many blessings. Best wishes to you all!!!

-- Ken Prager (pragerproperties@worldnet.att.net), November 21, 2001.

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