The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie A. Brownscombe (1914) Courtesy Wikipedia

The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie A. Brownscombe (1914) Courtesy Wikipedia Images

 

Saying grace before carving the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner in the home of Earle Landis in Neffsville, Pennsylvania

Saying grace before carving the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner in the home ofΒ  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Earle Landis in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, 1942

 

 

 

ThisΒ imageΒ is a work of an employee of the United StatesΒ Farm Security Administration, takenΒ as part of that person’s official duties. The photograph is in the public domain.

 

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice ofΒ thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of theΒ Lord.

Jonah 2:9 Β KJV

 

Every year about this time my Dad would start handing out calendars for the new year, advertising his business, Longenecker Farm Supply. These calendars always featured something inspirational: a glossy, colored photo of a farm scene, happy children at play, or in this case, a family observing Thanksgiving. Daddy died in 1985 and after that time the business was sold, so calendars stopped. But until we moved, I kept the β€œThanksgiving” calendar in its plastic cradle attached to the inside of one of my kitchen cabinets, with new calendar year postings computer-generated.

Calendar

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name.Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β ~ Psalm 100:4
Happy Thanksgiving!Β