Thanks!

Another all-American, New England Thanksgiving, in Forlì, Italy!


Visiting the shops in America before Thanksgiving, one would think ...a jolly old Pilgrim with white furry trim on his turkey-brown coat leaving gifts for native-American children from a small replica Mayflower drawn by six corporate accountants with runny noses?

I looked everywhere for Thanksgiving stuff around Massachusetts. But all I found was early reminders of that Roman holiday of the birth of the Great Consumer. Who, as you may recall, was born in a Mall under the warm breaths of shop assistants, when his parents were on a pilgrimage to find a credit rating agency that would consent for them to get a Visa --but could not find a smoking room in anything but an Econo Lodge...

Meanwhile, there seems to still be families around who know how to do the real thing!