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Flashback Friday: Giving Thanks At Emmanuel House, Circa 1910

Image via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sunday-school-thanksgivingcollection].The Thanksgiving holiday has long been an opportunity to teach children — and adults — how to share, and the importance of giving thanks the living in a community. This image is from 1910 and shows a Sunday School Thanksgiving collection from

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Flashback Friday: Ice, Ice, Baby At Emmanuel House — Circa 1910

Photo via Brooklyn Historical Society [https://instagram.com/p/7LeP0lrOz5/?taken-by=brooklynhistory].As our heat wave winds down, we continue to give thanks to modern technologies such as air conditioning and refrigerator freezers. Can you imagine what it would have been like to not have these things? How would we