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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy Anniversary to us with 51 years of marriage today.
Married on Thanksgiving 1970. Honeymoon in Plymouth, MA. Had Thanksgiving "feast" with Pilgrims and Wampanoag people at the
Plimoth Patuxet Museum
Here is the real history as we know it today.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-really-happened-at-the-first-thanksgiving-180979108/
https://plimoth.org/for-students/homework-help/who-are-the-wampanoag
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)...may you have many more.
markie
(22,756 posts)and a big thanks for the articles...
twodogsbarking
(9,739 posts)It's all small stuff.
BComplex
(8,049 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)Celebrate!💕💕🥂
Celerity
(43,335 posts)pazzyanne
(6,549 posts)You have reached a notable milestone in your lives!
Trueblue Texan
(2,429 posts)Have a wonderful anniversary!
Bluethroughu
(5,165 posts)You have plenty to be grateful for.
Tucker08087
(621 posts)Wishing you 51 more years together of love and laughter!
sinkingfeeling
(51,452 posts)Happy, happy, happy!
We are at 43 and counting.
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)onethatcares
(16,167 posts)and remember, the second 51 are easier cause all the wrinkles have been ironed out during the first 51.
Congrats
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)onethatcares
(16,167 posts)of a marriage my folks/her folks and everyone else that knew us said was not going to last 51 days.
"It was a teenage wedding, and everybody wished them well. C'est la vie" say the old folks, goes to show you never can tell"
boy, were we surprised.
again, congrats
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)As a 6th grader, we learned the story of the pilgrimage to a new world.. our class trip was to Plymouth Rock and the mayflower..early summer of late fifties..it was a time you could reach out and touch the rock..they had to lower it some years ago, out of reach of those who would chip at it..
A visit to Plymouth and the Pilgrim village should be on everyone's bucket list, if going to be in the area..and, of course, the Mayflower..just stand below deck, and take in your surroundings..not your everyday cruise. Wonderful how the locals have preserved the village..
Miles Standish Monument stands out as well..for a kid of 10-or 11, I remember how high the circular staircase was, much fun to climb..
My last trip back was in '98 for my daughters wedding..brought a friend from AZ who had never been to New England..we traveled over 2500 miles during a 3 week visit, having used a cottage rental in E Dennis as base..from Provincetown, to Marthas Vineyard (yes, jeep on ferry)..north to Salem, up to Portand ME..down to taking in Fanuel Hall in Boston..my friend loved the authentic dress, and feast prepping (mid Oct visit) at Plymouth most of all - (she was an elementary school teacher) - ..congrats again..and thanks for tapping into one of my fondest memories..
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Congratulations to you both!
Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)I hope your day is wonderful!
Alien Life Form
(370 posts)52 years of marriage here. Married on 4th of July 1969 ..and also USAF vet! Also live in that area...Rhode Island to be exact..
Congrats and Happy Thanksgiving to you and all here!
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)My wife was still in college. That's why we picked Thanksgiving. Just enough time to get married have a few days for a honeymoon then she went back to school and I went back to work.
Doesn't sound like a great way to start but 51 years later seems like it might work.
Alien Life Form
(370 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)Hubby and I have made it 45 years so far without killing each other...
calimary
(81,230 posts)Were at 45 years too!
Luciferous
(6,078 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts).
My boss just retired and said he's been doing the same thing for 35 years and he can't see returning to it, even as a consultant.
Kudos! Best wishes for having that magic that people dream of as kids when they think of getting married!
You guys made it work!
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cate94
(2,810 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)Hope you have many more together.
brer cat
(24,562 posts)I hope you have a great day to celebrate.
MLAA
(17,288 posts)Thank you for posting the article. I am glad I read it as a reminder.
Bettie
(16,095 posts)It is wonderful to have that person beside you who makes the good things in life better and the bad things easier to bear.
electric_blue68
(14,888 posts)malaise
(268,967 posts)Celebrate
Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)I have a hard time understanding why folks desire to deny our collective past; the good, bad, and ugly. Germany seems to have the right attitude towards addressing their past. School kids must visit a Holocaust museum, reparations have been made amongst other things.
DFW
(54,369 posts)Congratulations!
LeftInTX
(25,291 posts)Cape Cod Times did an in-depth series. However I'm on my phone, so it's in the ether. Otherwise, I would share.
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)LeftInTX
(25,291 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)Now for the rest of the story. As Paul Harvey used to say.
My wife spent 35 years digging out the data to prove her grandmother's folklore story that they were direct descendent of the Mayflower. She established the connection in 2017.
We have always known that history books were only telling one side of the story.
Forty some years we moved to Wisconsin to be near family. We did not know that the move would put us in between two Ojibwa Tribal Reservations. The historical stories from this are not very different from those of the Wampanoaugs Tribal members on Cape Cod. The tribal elders here are working had to save their history and their tribal language.
I do not know if tribes from New England regions suffered the disgraceful history of having their young people sent off to boarding schools where the intent was to take the Native American language and heritage away from the children. The results were tragic.
One source that tells the actual history of these boarding schools:
Boarding School Season Brenda. J. Child 1995
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803264054/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Recently regional news stories are reporting the discovery of graves of hundreds of young native kids that died in those schools.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)This TG included a couple who married just a few years ago in their early 70s (instead of the early '70s). On a ship with everyone in pirate costume, and of course all actual history banished. Kinda different, but also a happy couple.