Speaking of cranberries...chances are those cranberries that adorn your Thanksgiving feasts as sauce or garnish come form Massachusetts, Wisconsin, or the famous Pineland cranberry bogs of Southern New Jersey!

http://www.online96.com/cranberry/

THE CRANBERRY MEANT PEACE

Long before the first white settlers came into the area, the Lenni-Lenape Indians, a branch of the Algonquins, made their home in the river valleys of what is now South and central New Jersey. The first known harvesters of the cranberry in the state, the Lenni-Lenapes, used the wild red berry for food. The Lenni-Lenape word for the berry was "pakim", meaning "noisy berry".

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http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/pinelands/cranber.htm

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

And I'm sooo thankful that I'm a vulture and not a turkey right now! gobble, gobble