Lina Woronko
We’ve all had holidays when something seems to go wrong in the worst possible way… At least I know I have! One Thanksgiving my cat dragged in a live bird. The bird flew around our house and we had to chase it down and out of every room until it finally flew out the front door.
Brown & Gold recently asked students to share their most memorable Thanksgiving stories. Whether a tradition didn’t go as planned or something totally unexpected happened, these holidays were some for the books!
“One Thanksgiving my older cousin gave all the kids forks that extended to three feet long. The adults had no idea... So when they were all gathered around the table and began putting food on their plates, we all pulled out our forks and extended them to reach across the table for food! It was so funny.”
“A few days before Thanksgiving in 2014, my mom had bought the turkey we were planning on serving for the holiday. She had asked me to put the turkey in the fridge downstairs in the basement and I listened. Mind you, we have two fridges in the basement… Anyways, I put the turkey in the fridge (or at least in one of them). The day before Thanksgiving I get a call from my mother during my Italian class… I had put the the turkey in the wrong fridge and it spoiled! So thankfully, after school, my memere rushed me to the store and I got the last 28 lb. turkey at Market Basket.”
“When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of food. Although we don’t do this anymore, my brother, my mother, and I used to toast loaves upon loaves of bread for our stuffing. We would take turns chopping up the bread to cook with the seasoning. I would have a lot of fun making the food while listening to music, but my brother and I would always argue about which one of us got to play it. Either way, I loved cooking with them.”
“One Thanksgiving it was my job to set the dinner table. I set each place perfectly with the finest dishes in the house. I completed the arrangement with an elegant centerpiece of my grandfather’s urn and surrounded it by a wreath of fall leaves. I haven’t been asked to set the table since.”
“One Thanksgiving when I was nine, I had a hamster named Brutus. I was showing my hamster to my younger cousin when I dropped Brutus and he fell into my eagerly waiting dog’s mouth. I screamed for my mom who was in the other room. She frantically ran in and scooped the hamster up from my dog’s throat. My hamster was smelly and soaking wet with dog saliva, but he was alive and lived another three happy months. My dog was also okay but upset, because she didn’t get to eat Brutus.” -Cynthia Caruso, Junior
“Every year on Thanksgiving I help skin the turkey and serve everyone’s plate with my dad. We always tell jokes and play music while we do it. It’s always a fun time!”
“One year, a week before Thanksgiving, my family decided it would be a great idea to get a dog. We spent the day looking all over until we ended up at Zoo Creatures in Plaistow. Sometimes, Zoo Creatures has peacocks and turkeys outside. When my family and I began to enter the store, the turkeys chased us away! It was hilarious.”
“When I still lived in my home state of Georgia, my family would go over my aunt’s house every other Thanksgiving. I guess you could say it was kind of a tradition. As soon as my immediate family arrived, my siblings and I were separated from our mother as usual. The adults would be in the kitchen and dining room while the kids would be either in the backyard or the game room. My cousins swarmed all over me, because they hadn’t seen me in a year. When you haven’t seen someone in a year, you don’t know how much they have grown or if they have gotten better at something. This leads to competitiveness and family competitions. The year before, my cousin won the “pot” or the competition. This year, it was going to be me, or at least I wanted it to be. So as usual, I’m in the game room, playing against whoever comes in. Then, of course, my sister, Dawniqua, has to come in and blow everybody out of the water... But, hey, at least I got to go home with a full belly and three pumpkin pies.”
Brown & Gold recently asked students to share their most memorable Thanksgiving stories. Whether a tradition didn’t go as planned or something totally unexpected happened, these holidays were some for the books!
“One Thanksgiving my older cousin gave all the kids forks that extended to three feet long. The adults had no idea... So when they were all gathered around the table and began putting food on their plates, we all pulled out our forks and extended them to reach across the table for food! It was so funny.”
-Madison Thompson, Junior
“A few days before Thanksgiving in 2014, my mom had bought the turkey we were planning on serving for the holiday. She had asked me to put the turkey in the fridge downstairs in the basement and I listened. Mind you, we have two fridges in the basement… Anyways, I put the turkey in the fridge (or at least in one of them). The day before Thanksgiving I get a call from my mother during my Italian class… I had put the the turkey in the wrong fridge and it spoiled! So thankfully, after school, my memere rushed me to the store and I got the last 28 lb. turkey at Market Basket.”
-Olivia Cranston, Junior
“When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of food. Although we don’t do this anymore, my brother, my mother, and I used to toast loaves upon loaves of bread for our stuffing. We would take turns chopping up the bread to cook with the seasoning. I would have a lot of fun making the food while listening to music, but my brother and I would always argue about which one of us got to play it. Either way, I loved cooking with them.”
-Gianna Valenti, Freshman
“One Thanksgiving it was my job to set the dinner table. I set each place perfectly with the finest dishes in the house. I completed the arrangement with an elegant centerpiece of my grandfather’s urn and surrounded it by a wreath of fall leaves. I haven’t been asked to set the table since.”
-Lauren Clark, Senior
“One Thanksgiving when I was nine, I had a hamster named Brutus. I was showing my hamster to my younger cousin when I dropped Brutus and he fell into my eagerly waiting dog’s mouth. I screamed for my mom who was in the other room. She frantically ran in and scooped the hamster up from my dog’s throat. My hamster was smelly and soaking wet with dog saliva, but he was alive and lived another three happy months. My dog was also okay but upset, because she didn’t get to eat Brutus.” -Cynthia Caruso, Junior
“Every year on Thanksgiving I help skin the turkey and serve everyone’s plate with my dad. We always tell jokes and play music while we do it. It’s always a fun time!”
-Richard Hallinan, Sophomore
“One year, a week before Thanksgiving, my family decided it would be a great idea to get a dog. We spent the day looking all over until we ended up at Zoo Creatures in Plaistow. Sometimes, Zoo Creatures has peacocks and turkeys outside. When my family and I began to enter the store, the turkeys chased us away! It was hilarious.”
-Eryn Spencer, Junior
“When I still lived in my home state of Georgia, my family would go over my aunt’s house every other Thanksgiving. I guess you could say it was kind of a tradition. As soon as my immediate family arrived, my siblings and I were separated from our mother as usual. The adults would be in the kitchen and dining room while the kids would be either in the backyard or the game room. My cousins swarmed all over me, because they hadn’t seen me in a year. When you haven’t seen someone in a year, you don’t know how much they have grown or if they have gotten better at something. This leads to competitiveness and family competitions. The year before, my cousin won the “pot” or the competition. This year, it was going to be me, or at least I wanted it to be. So as usual, I’m in the game room, playing against whoever comes in. Then, of course, my sister, Dawniqua, has to come in and blow everybody out of the water... But, hey, at least I got to go home with a full belly and three pumpkin pies.”
-Ashley Galloway, Junior
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