Another American Adventure: Thanksgiving 2012

Friday, November 23, 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

FA worked long and hard to pull together a Thanksgiving celebration here, pulling all the momentos of my mother out of the "magic cupboard" as well as adding a Fiji flair to it all ...

We used the plates and silver that my mother (and her mother) used many years ago.

In Fiji they put hibiscus on the back of the toilets - so we did that too...

John arrived on the Tri Rail ...

Jon and Heather came down from Fernandina Beach ...

Jubilee anxiously awaiting ...

Facebooking with Joe who is in Fiji!

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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.