Come One, Come All

 

Happy Thanksgiving! Here's hoping that you're happy, well-fed, warm, and well today. Here's an illustration of how I'm getting to my family's celebration. And if you need some reading today, Atlas Obscura has seven Thanksgiving stories that are pretty entertaining.

I always love looking at historical illustrations of the various holidays we celebrate, this one from famous political cartoonist, Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly in 1869. It shows what would be a very lively Thanksgiving dinner table. The words "Come One, Come All" and "Free and Equal" are written in the corners. And right in the center of the table is "Universal Suffrage" And "Self Governance". Sounds like a darned good feast to me.