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Thoughts on Thanksgiving from The Hub Review by Thomas Garvey

At the left is J.C. Leyendecker's cover for the Saturday Evening Post on Thanksgiving 1924. And gazing at it this morning, I was struck by how it captured something essential to our vision of the holiday - and ourselves.A white man - fat as a turkey.  With a gun.  And a Bible. Sigh. Somehow I think this great gay artist was choking back bitter laughter as he served up what the Post's conservative publi…

SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AM on November 27, 2014

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