•November 22, 2017•

By Mike Brothers

Thanksgiving was always special for Oh Brother. Being born on Thanksgiving Day in 1952 has carried with it burden and confusion.

The burden of being born on a floating holiday means no one ever remembers your birthday. Even though it occurs on Nov. 27 every year the movement of Thanksgiving Day from date to date makes the birthday elusive to say the least.

Last year the 27th was on Sunday, and Cindy Clore treated me to a concert of two of my favorite performers Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt. This involved a 2000 mile trip to Standing Rock North Dakota to see them, but it was a trip worth taking and worth the education on how corporations get anything they want in America.

When Oh Brother was younger, oh so much younger than today, he knew the meaning of Thanksgiving. As a matter of fact every year at McKinley Elementary School in Harrisburg one class put on the annual Thanksgiving Day play to remind us.

It was the class gathering of the earliest American settlers (immigrants) and the native Americans who helped them survive their first winter on foreign soils. We were very thankful to the natives when our lives depended on them.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.