Thanksgiving Day seems late this year, and by the calendar it is.

Contrast that with my general sense of time’s moving much too fast, especially as I am looking at leaves still on the trees and thinking in terms of mid-October. If I am not confused enough, I have 4 1/2 inches of snow in my backyard as I write this.

One of the history lessons I most enjoyed in my grammar school days was that of the first Thanksgiving in America.

I suspect the story I learned is part fact, part apocrypha, but the moral it taught was the important thing. Even in difficult times, we should give thanks for our blessings and be willing to share those with our neighbors.

The deconstructionists will disagree with me, but I saw only good things in the story of the Pilgrim-Wampanoag celebratory feast.

If it wer

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