Autumnal Amidst the Leaves
Journaling reads: Mark has been taking the camera to the woods when he goes down to the pits in the morning. He has taken some beautiful photos of the colorful woods. 11/11/23
The dead leaves fall like noiseless rain,
The air is calm and warm and sweet;
Upon the woodland and the plain
The ghost of summer rests her feet.
–Clinton Scollard (1860–1932)
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All by Anna Aspnes
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Photo taken by my DH
Little Moments Big Memories
Done for the Border Challenge #5 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/november-challenge-5-border-only.38558/
Credits list:
Everyday Memories Collection by Palvinka Designs
Photo is mine
Fabulous Fall
Done for the Big Photo Challenge #6 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/november-challenge-6-big-photo.38568/
Credits list:
All product by Regina Falango
WILD WOOD THE KIT
WILD WOOD ADD ON
WILD WOOD CLUSTERS
WILD WOOD COMPOSITIONS
WILD WOOD CARDS
WILD WOOD ACCENTS
WILD WOOD BOUQUETS
Photo mine
Thanksgiving in the United States
Done for the Journaling Challenge #7 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/november-challenge-7-journaling.38585/
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress. President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience ... fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation". From 1942 onwards, Thanksgiving, by an act of Congress received a permanent observation date, the fourth Thursday in November.
Harvest festival observed by the Pilgrims at Plymouth
The Plymouth settlers, known as Pilgrims, had settled in a land abandoned when all but one of the Patuxet Indians died in a disease outbreak. After a harsh winter killed half of the Plymouth settlers, the last surviving Patuxet, Tisquantum, more commonly known by the diminutive variant Squanto (who had learned English and avoided the plague as a slave in Europe), came in at the request of Samoset, the first Native American to encounter the Pilgrims. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn and served as an interpreter for them until he too succumbed to the disease a year later. The Wampanoag leader Massasoit also gave food to the colonists during the first winter when supplies brought from England were insufficient. Massasoit had hoped to establish an alliance between the Wampanoag, themselves greatly weakened by the same plague that extirpated the Patuxet, and the better-armed English in their long-running rivalry with a Narragansett tribe that had largely been spared from the epidemic; the tribe reasoned that, given that the Pilgrims had brought women and children, they had not arrived to wage war against them.
The Pilgrims celebrated at Plymouth for three days after their first harvest in 1621. The exact time is unknown, but James Baker, the Plimoth Plantation vice president of research, stated in 1996, "The event occurred between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, 1621, with the most likely time being around Michaelmas (Sept. 29), the traditional time." Seventeenth-century accounts do not identify this as a Thanksgiving observance, rather it followed the harvest. It included 50 people who were on the Mayflower (all who remained of the 100 who had landed) and 90 Native Americans. The feast was cooked by the four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World (Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna White), along with young daughters and male and female servants. According to accounts by Wampanoag descendants, the harvest was originally set up for the Pilgrims alone; the surviving natives, hearing celebratory gunfire and fearing war, arrived to see the feast and were warmly welcomed to join the celebration, contributing their own foods to the meal. William Bradford, in Of Plymouth Plantation wrote: “They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they can be used (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl, there was a great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck a meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to the proportion. Which made many afterward write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned but true reports.”
Journaling reads: Thanksgiving is a special time for me as our family near and far gather for a time of reflection and prayer before our meal to thank the Lord for His many blessings that He granted to each of us throughout another year. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV) - “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I try to remember to be thankful everyday for at least one thing, no matter how my day went. Today, after reading some of the history of the first Thanksgiving Day, I’m thankful I was not one of those 4 women having to fix all that food for that many people for 3 days during that first Thanksgiving!
Credits list:
Autumn Harvest by Lynne Anzelc
Autumn Harvest WordArt by Lynne Anzelc
Wild West AddOn by Lynne Anzelc
Thanksgiving Overlays by After Midnight Designs
Thanksgiving No 1 by Anna Aspnes
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