Happy Thanksgiving
Written by duckrabbitFor all our readers from the USA thanks for dropping by and here’s wishing you and yours a happy thanksgiving.
And since we’re in festive spirit here’s an absolute peach of a photofilm by Rebecca Harley and Mike Lusmore. Rebecca and Mike are the brains and the beauty behind the Hinterlands Workshop, which is back with an even bigger bang in 2012.
Maybe we can persuade some of you Americans to cross the waters and join the workshop next year? (this year we’ve taught people from USA, Syria, Canada, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Georgia, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Kenya …)
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
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And lest we forget the true origins of this most festive and American of holidays:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/23/273864/-The-Thanksgiving-Day-MassacreOr,-would-you-like-Turkey-with-your-genocide-
William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, wrote: “Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire…horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them.”
Mason himself wrote: “It may be demanded…Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion? But…sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents…. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.”