A. The "What a Turkey" Box. This fat fellow is a 25 pounder for sure and, as turkeys go not bad looking but the reality is that all turkeys are homely as sin. Tiny heads, stick like legs, huge bodies and tails--they are completely out of proportion and worse -- they are unbelievably stupid. I was on a turkey ranch years ago and watched those ridiculous birds fly, one after the other, onto the same few inches of a nesting shelf until they were piled four and five high, the ones on the bottom of the heap screeching like mad. The ranch hand, standing nearby went and shooed them off otherwise they would have killed the first few layers of birds. He told me this sort of thing goes on all of the time. They have to be watched constantly. So now you know why the kids use "You turkey" as a derogative. (The photograph is outsized, the box is actually 2 1/4 by 2 1/2 inches.) Our price: $182.90 and this is a fresh bird, never been frozen.

B.The Priscilla Alden Box. Dressed as the Pilgrims dressed, simply and usually in grey and white, they always wore wide bertha collars,caps and aprons. Priscilla is carrying the bird to the table. Around her feet, sheaves of wheat. Inside a branch with red berries and the clasp a branch with berries. I am sure you remember that the Pilgrims came here to escape religious persecution in England. Can you imagine the courage it took to get on a sailing vessel with no navigational instruments, no means of locomotion excepting the sails, knowing nothing of what awaited them excepting that there was no civilization as they knew it -- here. How absolutely terrifying it must have been. And if you stop to think that the voyage meant at least six months at sea it is beyond my imagination how they summoned the strength and courage to make such a journey, to go where few had been before them. We have a lot to be thankful for -- and it is the Pilgrims we should be thanking. Without them we wouldn't be here. Retail: About $187.00. Our price: $168.90. NEW

C. The John Alden Box. Dressed as the Pilgrim fathers dressed with a variation on what we call a sailor collar, a doublet, trousers that ended at the calf and shoes that buckled. And, don't miss the hat! John is bringing the fruits, berries and vegetables to the table. Notice the pumpkins piled behind him and also a squash, Inside, another vegetable, painted. The clasp, a pear. Retail: $165.90. Our price: $147.90. NEW

Buy any two of the boxes and get a 15% discount. Buy all three and it goes up to a 20% discount..

NOTE: In doing the research for this to make certain I remembered it correctly, I discovered that there is no evidence of that little tale being true. So, what I was taught as the gospel as a child turns out to, perhaps, have been a fairy tale or, at the least, it was and is unsubstantiated. It is a charming tale and I see no reason not to continue relating it. Have I said lately that I just hate these people who destroy these delightful stories just to show how clever they are at research.What earthly difference can it make to anyone at this late date, so why change things now? Can't they leave us a little of the romance of long ago folk tales? As well, it strikes me that they can't be very serious researchers if this is the sort of thing they spend their time on.

TOP of page