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150 years later, Lincoln's words ring true
Mortons Gap news
By Jennifer Nelson, Mortons Gap Correspondent
A very happy Thanksgiving Day to you all. I trust many of you are hard at work in the kitchen basting the golden bird and filling the home with the scent of pumpkin pie. We always enjoyed watching the parades on TV when I was a kid. Then there is, of course, football for the rest of the crowd.
I've been working late every night, so I haven't had time to find out much of the goings-on around here. There have been some fairly good crowds at the Front Porch Jubilee. They are still open on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. I haven't had a chance myself to get down there, but I'm hoping to soon.
I came across a Thanksgiving story that may put a smile on your face. Not sure if it is true, but it is a good story.
It was the Monday before Thanksgiving when Bobby collapsed in a Wal-Mart in Worcester, Mass. Other customers gathered around and the first-aider was summoned. It did not look good for Bobby. There was blood coming out of his ear, his face looked pasty and he was unconscious.
The store manager dialed 911 and when the medical team arrived, the first thing they did was take off Bobby's hat. To everyone's amazement, inside was a partially frozen turkey. What felled Bobby was the chill from the turkey numbing his brain. The blood came from the giblets which had melted and leaked over his hair and down into his ear.
As it was Thanksgiving the manager took pity, and rather than prosecuting the shoplifter, gave him the partly thawed bird and sent Bobby on his way. Two days later the manager got a letter from Bobby apologizing for his behavior and thanking the manager for not prosecuting. Also inside the envelope was $15, the price of his turkey.
This week's quote is from Abraham Lincoln: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own, intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"
Gapanese translation: Let us always be thankful and never too busy to pray.
With your news about Mortons Gap, contact Jennifer Nelson by e-mail at jtnsing63@bellsouth.net or by phone at 258-5901.
I've been working late every night, so I haven't had time to find out much of the goings-on around here. There have been some fairly good crowds at the Front Porch Jubilee. They are still open on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. I haven't had a chance myself to get down there, but I'm hoping to soon.
I came across a Thanksgiving story that may put a smile on your face. Not sure if it is true, but it is a good story.
It was the Monday before Thanksgiving when Bobby collapsed in a Wal-Mart in Worcester, Mass. Other customers gathered around and the first-aider was summoned. It did not look good for Bobby. There was blood coming out of his ear, his face looked pasty and he was unconscious.
The store manager dialed 911 and when the medical team arrived, the first thing they did was take off Bobby's hat. To everyone's amazement, inside was a partially frozen turkey. What felled Bobby was the chill from the turkey numbing his brain. The blood came from the giblets which had melted and leaked over his hair and down into his ear.
As it was Thanksgiving the manager took pity, and rather than prosecuting the shoplifter, gave him the partly thawed bird and sent Bobby on his way. Two days later the manager got a letter from Bobby apologizing for his behavior and thanking the manager for not prosecuting. Also inside the envelope was $15, the price of his turkey.
This week's quote is from Abraham Lincoln: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own, intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"
Gapanese translation: Let us always be thankful and never too busy to pray.
With your news about Mortons Gap, contact Jennifer Nelson by e-mail at jtnsing63@bellsouth.net or by phone at 258-5901.
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