THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving is one of the American holidays when families gather together and have a huge turkey dinner and watch football.
I wasn’t the host and had a great day along with everyone else. In the morning Susie came by my apartment and made the cauliflower and cheese casserole that Kathe had made every year for our Thanksgiving dinner. Then at 3 we drove to Kathy’s and Tom’s house for a family thanksgiving dinner.
On the way we stopped at the house occupied by a group of young, under 40, musicians, the home of Henry, who has a wonderful voice who I have heard a number of times performing at Zadie’s. Susie had been invited to join them for Thanksgiving dinner and to bring me along, but all we could do was to stop in. It is a beautiful house that the group of musicians live in, a few at a time, when they are not touring and giving concerts. Being in the presence of creative young people is one of the pleasures for me as an old man in Marshall. I took some photographs and then we were off to Tom and Kathy’s house.
Kathy’s sister Lauren had driven over from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Husband Pete, sons Seth and Joe, both studying at Georgia Tech, and Joe’s girlfriend, Caroline were there. So were granddaughters Caroline and Hannah and Chris and Richard and Susie and me. Todd was still sick.
Kathy, Caroline and Hannah had all spent hours cooking the same traditional dishes that had been passed down from Kathy’s mother and grandmother. Tom had fried a turkey in a huge barrel of peanut oil, done far enough from the house not to burn it down if things went awry. We ate and ate and talked and talked and finally settled in the living room with football on the tv but the sound off so we could talk. It was a wonderful evening
Photos taken by a number of people.
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