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Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925, National Museum of Women in the Arts Pointedly, the anachronistic Plains Indians headdresses depicted in her 1914 painting, above, were not repeated in this, her 1925 painting of that event.
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Sometimes, it seems, a holiday falls perfectly upon us in time. An astrologer might call this Thanksgiving a fated crossing of stars. While I may not take that evidence to the tables in Las Vegas, this Thanksgiving is given to us at a moment when we seem to need its holiday message and meaning the most.