Journal

Before supper last night I spent an hour or so reading my Ben Franklin biography (which I'm very close to finishing). Proud of my newly gained knowledge of our founding father, I mentioned to my daughter that Franklin thought that the turkey was better suited to be a symbol of our new nation instead of the bald eagle. My daughter pondered that for a moment and replied, " If the turkey was our national symbol, we would have to eat bald eagle for Thanksgiving." I was delighted by the weight of her wit.

I wondered if that was part of the discourse in the Constitutional Convention?