Kernels

New World
1621

Cape Cod kernels
Husky gifts
Silk tipped
Tasseled, multi-colored ears
Promise the midday meal

Mounded, tended
Shad manured
Living stalks
Row on row sown ears
Produce the midday meal

Dried, ground
Flour mixed
Baked cornmeal
Pestle pounded ears
Provide the midday meal

Samoset, Squanto, Massasoit
Native, peaceful teachers
Wisdom kernels
Whispered to Pilgrim ears
Preserve the midday meal.


Last Sunday we drove to Plymouth , about 30 minutes south to a Harvest Festival. There were terrific and tempting vegetables, breads and a few demonstrations with costumed period interpreters available from Plimouth Plantation, the village that replicates the early Pilgrim homesteads.

A guide to some Cape Cod personalities.



For the Record,
This day came in sunny and pleasant. A busy day getting ready for the feast on Thursday.