Berkeley Hundred Thanksgiving William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-28-19

Would it rock your world if you learned that the first colonial Thanksgiving was not held by the Pilgrims in New England but by the 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia, who concluded their arrival in 1619 with a religious celebration as dictated by the group’s charter from the London Company. It specifically delcared “that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned … in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.” 

Berkeley Hundred Thanksgiving William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-28-19

Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers

The poem below, Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers, was written by Felicia Hemans, an Englishwoman who lived from 1793 to 1835. Happy Thanksgiving. 

Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers

The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches tossed;

And the heavy night hung dark,
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.

Not as the conqueror comes,
They, the true-hearted came;
Not with the roll of the stirring drums,
And the trumpet that sings of fame;

Not as the flying come,
In silence and in fear;
They shook the depths of the desert gloom
With their hymns of lofty cheer.

Amidst the storm they sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
To the anthem of the free.

The ocean eagle soared
From his nest by the white wave’s foam;
And the rocking pines of the forest roared–
This was their welcome home.

There were men with hoary hair
Amidst the pilgrim band:
Why had they come to wither there,
Away from their childhood’s land?

There was woman’s fearless eye,
Lit by her deep love’s truth;
There was manhood’s brow, serenely high,
And the fiery heart of youth.

What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?
They sought a faith’s pure shrine!

Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod;
They have left unstained what there they found —
Freedom to worship God.

Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers

Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers

Talk low William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-28-19

Talk low William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-28-19

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.
John Wayne 

Talk low William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-28-19
Talk low William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-28-19