A Thanksgiving Tale: Blue Paws on Main Street

A Thanksgiving Tale is the triumphant story of unity in diversity. A small towns successful battle to overcome a factory owners poisonous pollution stonewalling indifference and legal skirmishes-fiction based on actual events. When grime slime and time adversely affected the inhabitants a group of concerned citizens of different social and ethnic backgrounds banded together to protect human life and the environment. A Native American Mayflower and slave descendants European and Chinese immigrants and others all fought side by side. They used many forms of human ingenuity and cooperation With tenacity and joy they created a model for America. A modest proposal for an evolving all-encompassing celebration of Thanksgiving and our many blessings.A Thanksgiving Tale is about an inclusive reinvigorated Thanksgiving holiday celebrating the gifts we take for granted: our melting pot clean water fresh air freedom of the press the rule of law and science.Dr. Joan Thomson Kretschmer Artistic Director and Founder of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York attended Smith College graduated from Barnard College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University where she was a Clarence Barker Fellow. A pianist and teacher she has been a music critic forThe New York Post and has written articles about music for The New York Times and other publications. Joan is the author ofYona: Discoveries Doorways and Musical Superpower;Yona Goes To The Magic Flute;andMichelangela and Debuts.Visit her websiteJoanKretschmer.com