thanksgiving miss-facts

When our Found­ing Fa­thers con­gre­gat­ed to de­cide on our na­tion­al sym­bol, Ben­jamin Franklin want­ed The Turkey. 

“He is be­sides, though a lit­tle vain & sil­ly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hes­i­tate to at­tack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should pre­sume to in­vade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” (le­git writ­ten quote by BF)

Thomas Jef­fer­son (who was fren­e­mies with EVERY­ONE – well doc­u­ment­ed. Check out the elec­tion of 1800) de­mand­ed the Eagle. 

BF be­ing miffed with TJ, com­plained to Alexan­der Hamil­ton in a letter. 

AH, be­ing the mis­chie­vous Caribbean pirate/spy that he was, con­vinced the orig­i­nal colonies to serve dur­ing their day of Thanks (which pri­or to good ol’ Abe de­clar­ing it a na­tion­al hol­i­day to give sol­diers in the Civ­il War a break and thank God, was in­tend­ed as an agri­cul­tur­al­ly re­li­gious har­vest cel­e­bra­tion), a Turkey. 

While it up­set BF to see the bird he once cam­paigned for as our Na­tion­al bird splayed out amongst a cor­nu­copia and Aunt Gertrude’s fruit cake, it was worth it to see Jefferson’s crin­kled, sneer­ing nose. Know­ing he, and his count­less gen­er­a­tions, have to see a turkey on his ta­ble every year for the rest of their lives.

This was how ten­sions be­gan be­tween the North and the South.
 

—jes

Flom­mist Jes ex­ists for mo­ments of fiery in­spi­ra­tion. See her in­spi­ra­tional byprod­ucts at jdeprez.com. Copy­right © 2016 JES DEPREZ.

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