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won’t be an ‘official’ member of GSMD until that happens, which will probably
be several months from now”. So … it looks as if I have more waiting to do … at

least the length of a Mayflower voyage or two.

I can say for certain that John Alden and
Priscilla Mullens were there (left) at the first
Thanksgiving four hundred years ago - 1621!
I just can’t say for certain (yet) that they are

my ancestors. Still, I could not let this year
pass by without bringing attention to this
very significant anniversary. Especially
because three hundred years after that first

Thanksgiving … well, take a look at the
following photograph (which for many years hung on the wall in the Poulsen
cabin at Lake Sutherland). Taken Thanksgiving 1921 – exactly 100 years
ago! It includes many of my (for certain) ancestors: great-grandparents,
grandparents, an uncle … and that young child being held up in the back row
… my father Donald Poulsen, just over a year old!

Thanksgiving 1921
Above Front Row: Athelene Poulsen (Fisher) holding Paul E. “Bud” Poulsen, Elizabeth Fisher (Blair),
Mary Corgan, Unknown. Second row: Howard Fisher, E.E. Fisher, Paul T. Poulsen holding Donald
N. Poulsen (age 1 year), Grace Fisher (Dick), Carlton Fisher, Margaret Fisher, Herman M. Fisher.
Third row: Jessie Fisher (Dick), Frank Fisher.

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