Jack of Harts

As we’re approaching Thanksgiving, we should remember the First Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims came to the New World to create a new community where they would share everything equally and work equally. And promptly spent the winter starving to death because the best of them worked as little as the least of them, and so they didn’t harvest enough food for all of them. They chose to give up their social equality plan after that and apportioned both the land and the harvest thereof to each family. After that, they brought in more food than they knew what to do with. And so they had a great big party with the local Indians and gave thanks to God for the bounty of food that would see them through the winter without starving. That was our First Thanksgiving.