Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers, but especially to all our commenters.
Thanks for your thoughts, your opinions, your passion, your humor and even thanks for the flashes of crazy that we all unleash from time to time.
We’re immensely thankful that we’re surrounded by neighbors that care enough about what happens in this city to make Village14 thrive over these last five years.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, your families, and friends – now get to that pie.
I wonder — what percent of Newton students have been taught or are aware that the actual Thanksgiving was not a fete of thanks to the Indians for teaching and helping the Pilgrims survive (including the harsh winter) with bounty, rather it is fete to capitalism whereby the original Mayflower Compact was changed from joint ownership of the land in common (“socialism”) under which the Pilgrims nearly perished the first year for lack of incentive, to each family being assigned their own plot of land the following year under which incentives produced bounty and excess for trade — so much so that the Indians were invited to share in the bounty produced by the Pilgrims. (BTW this is all from the journals of William Bradford, the original Governor of the Plymouth Plantation.)
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m thankful for my new avatar image – a simple sketch of me just done by Upper Falls artist extraordinaire Shogun Curtis. Shogun is the same guy who drew this, all by hand, last summer.