Uncle Aloysius and Aunt Filomena were preparing Thanksgiving dinner as always.
“Those Protestants think they’re such hot stuff,” moaned Aloysius.
“The first Thanksgiving, though, was really on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida, before their time.”
Filomena happily humored him, knowing that he was harmless, as well as right.
“They beat those snooty Protestants by fifty six years.”
“Don Pedro Menendez proclaimed the New World for Philip II.”
“The second Thanksgiving,” he continued, “was in 1598”, and he proceeded to explain the details.
“The Indians and Spaniards were on friendly terms.”
Filomena continued listening, knowing it kept him happy.
Rochelle Wisoff~Fields is in charge of our weekly Friday Fictioneers, a hundred~word attempt at story telling. Sandra Crook has supplied this week’s photo prompt.
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Dear Larry,
Uncle Aloysius reminds me of my dad who used to say the first president of our country was George Washington Wisoff. 😉
Shalom and Happy Thanksgiving,
Rochelle
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It’s a true story. Besides that, you’re right. Getting past factual accuracy (I looked it up) I wanted to base him upon Michael Constantine’s All~Good~Comes~From~Greece approach to life in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”.
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I immediately thought of Michael Constantine. 😉 That came across very well.
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What happened in 1598?
Randy
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Here’s what I found ~: http://taylormarshall.com/2013/11/6-interesting-catholic-thanksgiving.html
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Thanks. Interesting history.
Randy
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I like the dialogue, but confess that the details discussed are beyond the ken of this foreigner.
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Thanks .So sorry but that’s the problem with a milestone that’s specific to a certain country. Outsiders don’t quite get the connection.
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Bravo to you for writing such a great tale. Boo Aloysius and Filomena’s parents for giving them such difficult names to spell
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Thanks. They’re nice names but require such a whole lot of effort unfortunately
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I actually have an aunt Phil and an uncle Wish….and they are married. you should hear some of their kid’s names
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Alas a lot of people really like the distinctive names.
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Good dialogue, although some things I´ll have to check in wikipedia…. The character seems like a nice woman, what she has to put up with. Probably has listening problems now.
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I checked all the information out online .I wanted to make sure I was as factually accurate as possible.
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I was just kidding about the wikipedia thing, it was a nice read.
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Thanks It’s good to know everybody likes it
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Ah.. yes the oldest city… I have been in Saint Augustine so it does not surprise me at all… 🙂
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Unfortunately I’ve never been there. I’ve heard it has quite a distinctive history though
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Most interesting…
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Thanks
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Good story based on facts, Larry. Thanks for the link. I never knew any of that so I learned something. Well done. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thanks Suzanne .It’s always been quite a major interest of mine
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Love this larry! Very cool!
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