Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.
Thanksgiving was a family event back in the Seventies. My grandma and grandpa Townsend had nine kids. Each of those kids had at least two kids. Most of them had four and five kids. We’d all gather at my grandparents' house on Thanksgiving. There was a ton of food on the table, but nothing really sticks out. I don’t remember if we had turkey, dressing, ham, green bean, or peas. I do know we had mashed potatoes since no meal was allowed to pass without potatoes in grandma’s house. The one thing I do remember is pie. There were lots of pie. There was a table in the back room of the house that pies were placed upon as they were cooling. There was pumpkin, apple, and cherry pie, but my favorite was black raspberry. In the summer, we’d pick the raspberries that the Rogers family hadn’t harvested yet. My grandpa had several rivalries in the neighborhood for different things, but with the Rogers family, it was raspberries. If you wanted raspberries, you had to get up early an