[Magdalen] Thanksgivings Past.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

I was remembering this morning so many Thanksgivings from the past.
 
For so many years in West Central Wisconsin, I would do the three  piece
suit and go down to the traditional Choral Eucharist at the local Christ  
Church
Cathedral at 10 AM.  They had developed a tradition of decorating  the
high altar with colorful gourds, pumpkins, corn, apples, grapes, etc. -  the
produce of the autumn harvest.  This could be trite, but it was  actually
really well done.  Even the high altar Tabernacle (front and center  where
a Tabernacle should be!) was banked with this decor.
 
Then I remember the 8 Thanksgivings I spent with my Aunt Helen in
Chicago, and the fun of taking the Badger Bus to the North Shore RR
Terminal in Milwaukee, and thence down to Howard Street and on foot
over to Ashland just at the city limits.  Thanksgiving dinner was at  my
Aunt Nora's in Monee, just at the Indiana line, and via the "IC", the
Illinois Central Railway - another fun excursion.
 
Then the Black Friday in the Loop and riding the packed escalators
in Marshall Field's and taking in the wonderful windows of the main
store on State Street.  Aunt Helen had to work at the Lee  Gilbert
Jewelry store on South Michigan Ave., so I was on my own.
 
The Sunday for me was initially at the grand First Methodist Church
in Evanston, and then eventually at the cavernous Saint Luke's
Episcopal in that City.
 
Such fond memories.
 
 
David Strang - who wouldn't be able to dress up in a three piece suit  if
                      I  wanted to at this time.