Happy Thanksgiving

Dear Readers,

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is intended to be a day of rest and bountiful enjoyment, and therefore I will spare you a lengthy article. I did want to thank all of you, however, for your support in this endeavor — your generosity and interest in this publication is something I am deeply grateful for at a personal level, so I want to extend my thanks to every one of you.

Below, I’ve included some local scenes, an autumnal photo essay for a day of gratitude. 

I can think of no better way to close this note than to quote from the original Proclamation of Thanksgiving, by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, issued in Washington, D.C., on October 3rd, 1863:

“I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.”

(The October Clam Digger; taken from the saltmarsh on Kingston Bay in Duxbury, looking toward Plymouth; credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)

(Duxbury Beach, looking towards The Gurnet; credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)

(Gurnet Light, looking northward; credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)

(The Gurnet from Saquish Beach, close to Saquish Head. Both The Gurnet and Saquish are villages of the Town of Plymouth, though accessible by land only through Duxbury. Credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)

(The Pembroke Herring Run; credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)

(Kingston Bay from Landing Road Beach in Duxbury. Goose Point in Duxbury can be seen on the left, while on the right, Manomet Hill stands watch in Plymouth; credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)

(Sunset over Kingston Bay, from Howland’s Landing, in Duxbury. Credit — J. Benjamin Cronin.)