Thanksgiving Dinner at Quarry Hill

Quarry Hill will have a Thanksgiving dinner this year again, as we did last year. It was a great gathering. Though I won't be here this time (I'll be in Princeton Jct., New Jersey to see Joya and  Maliya, my stepdaughter Corin's new baby), I am very happy that there will be a big get-together.
Quarry Hill people are not all vegetarian but the vegetarian tradition of Quarry Hill goes all the way back to Irving's connection with   George Bernard Shaw.  Shaw was very proud of his vegetarianism and longevity.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.  ~George Bernard Shaw


I would say that Barbara, who will barely swat a fly, is the greatest defender of animal rights who has ever lived here and has had a strong influence on QH's vegetarianism. (It is not required to be a vegetarian here, but no animals may be killed at QH.)

I wonder if she was influenced by the great artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, also a vegetarian?
(-- Ladybelle)

We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
~Leonardo da Vinci