Saint Valentine's Day Greetings

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In this episode, we mention the first Valentine's Poem. You can read it below, first in it's original writing and then in the English translation.

Charle's d'Orleans - A Farewell to Love

Je suis desja d'amour tanné,
Ma tres doulce Valentinée, Car pour moi fustes trop tart née, Et moy pour vous fus trop tost né. Dieu lui pardoint qui estrené
M'a de vous, pour toute l'année.
Je suis desja, etc.
Ma tres doulce, etc. Bien m'estoye suspeconné, Qu'auroye telle destinée, Ains que passast ceste journée,
Combien qu'Amours l'eust ordonné.
Je suis desja, etc.

I am already sick of love,
My very gentle Valentine,
Since for me you were born too soon,
And I for you was born too late.
God forgives he who has estranged
Me from you for the whole year.
I am already, etc.
My very gentle, etc.
Well might I have suspected,
That such a destiny,
Thus would have happened this day,
How much that Love would have commanded.
I am already, etc.

A Very Early Valentine written in 1848 from a Lady to her Lover.

Valentine's Day at the Post Office. Everyone is sorting the large amount of letters.

An Example of a mock Valentine. This one sent by a lady to an unwanted suitor.

Cherubs are a popular image to see on Valentines Cards.
HAPPY ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, LOVELIES!

Thanksgiving Primary Sourse

One of my design teachers yesterday told us that he had heard that they did not actually eat turkey for the first thanksgiving and it was more likely that they had lobster.. I'm not really sure if i believe it, but it is plausible. So, i decided to do some research..
First of all, wild turkeys can be found pretty much all over eastern America. I don't have a picture showing what the turkey situation was back then.. but the first thanksgiving took place in New England which is well inside turkey territory.

The only written account from the first "thanksgiving" in America is written by Edward Winslow in 1621. In Edward Winslow's document he writes, "the foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke"... "and the went out and killed five Deere, which the brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governour and upon the Captaine, and others."
so.. yes... they had fowl and yes.. the had deer.
another rumour is that they aren't sure if Indians actually attend this "first thanksgiving" in fact, the Wampanoag did attend along with the colonists.

So the results are so:
they are unsure if there was turkey or not. but they did eat some sort of fowl.. and deer. no accounts of the eating lobster though.




sources: http://plimoth.org/education/olc/source.html