I am going to cheat again today.  I have those typical Thanksgiving obligations to our family, so I’m pulling out an old blog post that was published three years ago.  At that time, I wrote this post after Thanksgiving was over.  I cannot believe it has been three years since this article was written.  I hope to get back to writing tomorrow when many family members will be doing the Black Friday “thing” and I stay where it’s nice and peaceful to write a story.  Happy Thanksgiving!

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Like so many of you, I’m sure, I just had a wonderful time celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with members of my family.  Now that it is over, I have a few thoughts to share.

It occurred to me that there are quite a few similarities between the story of the Pilgrims coming to America and settling in Massachusetts and the story of…