The cleanliness and crispness of the pilgrim outfit also suggests that the goose is probably cared for by a paid housekeeper of the aforementioned attorneys.
Sandwiched between the decoration-intense holidays of Halloween and HanukChristKwanzaa, Thanksgiving struggles for a voice of its own. As seen below, many yard artists struggle with finding such a clarity of message...
No amount of staring at the picture above will help to explain how the wheelbarrow or vintage pickup truck filled with coral came to be a part of the Thanksgiving holiday story. The arrangement of decorative items does suggest that this is the work of a master craftsman who learned her display skills in a college home economics course -- in 1957. Below, another yard art display shows how a teacher struggles with the Thanksgiving theme... With all the assessment tests and school-reform protests required in today's classroom, students don't have much time to learn about Thanksgiving folklore. The cut-out turkeys, pilgrims, Indians and horns-o-plenty pictured on the window above were quite commonplace back in the day, when students spent Thanksgiving week making pine-cone turkeys. Now they are only good for blocking the harsh light that shines on Thanksgiving Day.More from our Kenny Be/Comics archive: "Dan Maes résumé rewrite highlights campaign experience: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario."
