Every year that I was growing up in Springfield, Illinois, we would begin Thankgiving day with “the lawyers’ walk.” The Illinois Bar Association hosted a walk in the woods for the member lawyers and their families, followed by a cheery fire in a shelter with hot chocolate, coffee and, my favorite part of all, doughnuts. I’m not sure which part I liked more, the walk itself or the treats afterward, but those walks are some of my favorite Thanksgiving memories. It was a chance for my dad to reconnect with colleagues and a chance for me to catch up with the colleagues’ kids, many of whom were also classmates (hello Joe and Andy Cadigan, wherever you are!).
I miss those walks, and that part of the tradition of this day.
What Thanksgiving traditions do you remember, that are no longer part of your Thanksgiving?
Back in Buffalo, we’d run the Turkey Trot, a five mile race through downtown Buffalo on Thanksgiving morning. It’s a very old family tradition–my father and his brothers were running it in the 1950s, and I once ran it when I was 28 weeks pregnant. Some of my family ran it today and I wish I could have run it with them.
every thanksgiving, my dad, my brother and I would go to Carpenter’s Park for the annual bar association hike….i remember there was always this tall skinny girl at the hike, she was in my brother andy’s class at CTK and SHG….
gr8 resrch bro…