HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

The Pilgrims are signing the "Mayflower Compact" which will give them the right to practice their religion.

Native Americans were invited to the first Thanksgiving. They taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and fish.

Just reminding you all that you are descendants of the Pilgrims who left Plymouth, England in 1620 on the Mayflower to find religious freedom in America. We come through Priscilla Mullins who married John Alden. He visited her on an errand from the Captain Miles Standish who wanted to marry Priscilla. But Priscilla said to John, "Speak for yourself, John" meaning she loved John and wanted to marry him.

Through Priscilla comes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who was America's poet in the 1700's. We are his descendant, as well! I am thankful for the Mayflower, for the great courage of the Pilgrims. (half of them died the first winter) for Priscilla Mullins who lost her parents and her brother to the terrible sickness. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!