Hi Jana and All Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I too love the holiday, probably even more since it seems to be being downplayed in these times. It's just good company and good food - no presents to buy and no one expecting any. We'll be together with our 4 kids. Our son will be home from college and we have a new grandson to celebrate too (born Oct 6) We don't fool around with new tastes for the meal. Everyone wants things to be EXACTLY the way they are SUPPOSED to be. Our DEWHURST family came from Blackburn in Lancashire to Chorley in Lancashire about 1816. Then Richard James DEWHURST (born Chorley to James Kirkham DEWHURST & Jane BROWN) & wife Ann HENDERSON (born Scotland) came from England to Lowell, MA about 1840. Wife Ann died, leaving Richard with a bunch of children. He remarried to Ellen Barry REGAN. Together they moved to NYC by 1860. Had another bunch of children before he died in 1870. The widow Ellen & children moved to Brooklyn. Lots of descendants - but I'm stuck in Blackburn going back before James Kirkham DEWHURST. He was the son of James DEWHURST & Mary BOLTON, but I cannot find any record of James DEWHURST's birth. As for food.... The Dewhursts and my own family shared pretty much the same traditions for Thanksgiving. The biggest difference I can think of is that the "D"s insisted on putting bacon on top of the turkey before it cooked. It's probably not very good for you, but the taste of the bacon is out of this world - IF you can get some before it's all gone! Saw a house in town today with Christmas lights up and lit already... Terry / Glen Rock, NJ