Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

 Salvete Omnes,



Happy Thanksgiving to you, my friends and fellow net travelers,  & your family!! 



May your journey to your family home be safe, sound and joyful... Happy Thanksgiving dinner 









and my older post about the wild turkey of the Americas 


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Valete

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving .. with some N.C. Wyeth's paintings

 Salvete Omnes, 



Thanksgiving - enjoy your turkey and rejoice having family around your  table.
May the peace and tranquility rule on this American holiday .




Happy Thanksgiving you all


And the post is illustrated with artwork by N.C. Wyeth. (most come from Wiki Commons, some of them are from this blog)







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Enjoy

Valete

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving - wild turkey et al

 Salvete Omnes,



Happy and joyful Thanksgiving, may very evil stay away far and far and.



today is our much loved Thanksgiving  and we do eat turkeys in a family feast-like gathering; usually we enjoy one large bird  either baked, grilled, roasted and broiled or fried at al, with much cranberry sauce, gravy, and staffing, some mash potatoes (another  native American food ), and a pumpkin or pecan  pie to top off. enjoy your feast. 



 So let me share some old and new writings about the America's turkey as it is connected with the native people of the continent..



Indians of North America domesticated, in Central Mexico and Southwest, the wild turkey. Here there  is a link to Academia article on the Maya turkey husbandry. Upon the conquest of Mesoamerica the the Spanish conquistadors brought the turkey with them while sailing  back to their 'Old World' kingdoms,  hence all modern turkeys originate from those brought from Mexico.

Fast forward  to the 18770s colonel Richard I. Doge described wild turkey and its habits and hunting  in his book on the hunting in great West.













Valete

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving

Salvete Omnes,


 

Happy  and splendidly full of family joy Thanksgiving


 

and a little collection of American magazine covers from the olden days - no horses though






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some satire



and then some from Wiki Commons




Valete