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Hmmm -- me thinks someone has embellished Norman's vision of the perfect Thanksgiving dinner!

Fiction: o one brings a turkey to the table like that -- carving the bird is a real mess, best done in the kitchen!!!

Fact: Have a happy T-day.

meant: Fiction: No one . . .

No that it matters, but our turkey always gets carved at the table. It's much more fun that way.

Of course I meant NOT that it matters.

Actually my quibble with the painting is that the platter and the turkey would be very heavy for that woman to be carrying, especially leaning over at that angle.

Groan.

I think Rockwell's intention was to evoke an experience/emotion for his audience, rather than create a scene of (un)believable physics in motion.

:) Of course.

My grandmother had some pretty dang strong arms, though. I wouldn't have put anything past her. You should have seen her killing snakes with a cane knife at their cabin on Bell River in South Louisiana. Physics be damned.

Even better fact:

The first Thanksgiving was actually celebrated at Berkeley Plantation, upriver from Jamestown (settled 1607) in the Colony of Virginia, on December 4, 1619, a full year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.

Capt. John Woodlief (of the Margaret) and his fellow settlers were fullfilling an edict from the London Company that...

“Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.”