On behalf of the entire team here at Maine First Project, best wishes for a blessed Thanksgiving.
Know that we are profoundly thankful for you and for your commitment to rebuilding the foundations on which this state and this nation were built.
Your patriotism is making a difference. Our movement is growing.
Together, we will restore Maine to The Way Life Should Be!
Best Regards,
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
PS
I leave you with the immortal words of Gov. Joshua Chamberlain:
STATE OF MAINE.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
A PROCLAMATION
FOR A DAY OF
Public Thanksgiving and Praise.
In the spirit of those who laid the foundations of these States in the fear and praise of God, and in devout recognition of the Supreme Ruler of men and Giver of good, I do hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, appoint Thursday, the Twenty-Eighth day of November next, as a day of Public Thanksgiving and Praise.
And I call upon the people of this State to assemble on that day in their sanctuaries and homes to recount the favors and repeat the praises of our most merciful Father. For life and health; for peace and home; for the prosperous course of seasons, and the plenteous rewards of toil; for the gift of grace and the hope of Heaven, let us render Him our humble thanks.
As a people we should rejoice that out of conflicts and tribulation we have been taught lessons of justice, humanity and true religion. As families, also, though there will be vacant places which sorrowing memory alone can fill, we will still praise Him who cannot err from right, and whose pity cannot fail.
Most of all should we remember with ever fresh Thanksgivings, Him who at this season came to take upon Himself our weaknesses and sins, and so testify our gratitude by thoughtful obedience and loving worship, that when He shall come again with power and great glory, we also may have part in His resurrection.
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta, this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-second.
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN.
PPS
And one more thing!
Savor this beautifully written tribute to our beloved state:
A THANKSGIVING LIST FOR THE REAL MAINE
A cloudless, crisp Maine November morning, just after the sun peeks over the hardwood ridge, woodsmoke in the air and the neighborhood bluejay population screaming in raucous indignation that their day’s allotted sunflower seed rations have not yet been laid out. If the Lord ever created a prettier day he must have kept it to himself, as my longtime fellow BDN co-conspirator, Tom Hennessey, would say.
The pleasures of a leisurely drive over a back road at the zenith of the Annual Changing of The Leaves, the stunning pageantry orchestrated by God Himself as advance compensation for man and beast with enough spunk to stick around, despite knowing what lies between now and mud season.
Come Thursday’s feasting we’d be ungrateful cads not to give thanks for Katahdin’s reassuring rock-solid presence, a stalwart sentinel guarding the front door to life’s simpler pleasures.
For the haunting wail of the loon on a remote lake on a mid-summer night.
For the sun glistening off Penobscot Bay at high noon as you crest the rise at Stockton Springs, the islands dressed to the nines in their finest tunics of spruce and granite.
For Port Clyde in the fog, Schoodic on a day when you can see all the way to Spain, the Haynesville woods in a raging February blizzard, The County at any time of year. For this Maine, that Maine, and yes, the Other Maine.
But most assuredly for the Real Maine and life as it ought to be, whatever the season, thick or thin, boom or bust. ……
excerpted from a column by that old dawg, BDN columnist Kent Ward, circa 1985….