BUSHELS OF BLESSINGS-- Thanksgiving-styled yard decorations bring a harvest theme to a local neighborhood, bringing to mind just some of the things we have to be thankful for in this season of remembering and feasting. The frost has not been on the pumpkin all that much this fall, but a few snappy mornings and crisp afternoons have brought to mind past times of gathering fodder in the shock. (Photos by Jim Steiert)
BUSHELS OF BLESSINGS-- Thanksgiving-styled yard decorations bring a harvest theme to a local neighborhood, bringing to mind just some of the things we have to be thankful for in this season of remembering and feasting. The frost has not been on the pumpkin all that much this fall, but a few snappy mornings and crisp afternoons have brought to mind past times of gathering fodder in the shock. (Photos by Jim Steiert)
Texas claims one of the earliest Thanksgiving ceremonies by Europeans on this continent. The Texas Society of Daughters of American Colonists placed a marker just outside of Canyon in 1959 that pronounced the Coronado expedition on the Llano Estacado celebrated the first feast of Thanksgiving in the Palo Duro Canyon in 1541. Modern historians say the event may have even happened in Blanco Canyo...
