I'm quite certain the original Thanksgiving didn't go down as depicted on the coloring pages brought home by my daughters from public school.  Although we like to romanticize about the holidays, there was no sunny luncheon amongst the natives and the pilgrims during the first Thanksgiving.   Those were in fact very dark times for the true forefathers and mothers of our country.

So, we can brood as we poke at our cranberry sauce or we can glaze over the…