{"id":64622,"date":"2021-11-22T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=64622"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:36:27","slug":"lumberjack-thanksgiving-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/lumberjack-thanksgiving-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumberjack Thanksgiving traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a time known for overindulging on food and spending time with family and friends, we asked our Lumberjack community about their favorite Thanksgiving traditions.\u00a0Here are their responses.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tablecloth of memories<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cWe have a tablecloth that we use on the Thanksgiving table every year. Each year,\u00a0family and guests write what they are thankful for that year in permanent marker along with their initials and the date. This is a tradition of almost 30 years, and there’s not a lot of space left on the tablecloth! Every year when we sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, before saying grace, everyone seems to end up holding their plate in the air to read the messages from previous years. Lots of laughter and fun stories come forward from those previous message… good times!\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope DeMello<\/span><\/b>, Department of Educational Psychology<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Peanuts-style, please!<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201c<\/span>My family’s Thanksgiving always included my immediate family, my grandparents and my great-aunt and uncle. Because we didn’t want our older relatives driving at night, we would have our Thanksgiving meal for lunch instead of dinner. After everyone else went home and it was time for\u00a0actual\u00a0dinner, we’d still be\u00a0pretty full. So,\u00a0instead of making a whole new meal, we’d put popcorn, toast, pretzel sticks and\u00a0jelly\u00a0beans\u00a0on a big plate\u00a0and watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special while enjoying our Peanuts-style Thanksgiving dinner!<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hannah Marshall<\/span><\/b>, studying Secondary Education, History\/Social Studies<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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10 a.m. at the dive bar\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cInstead of Black Friday shopping\u00a0in the\u00a0morning, my family and I get together at a local dive bar\u2014the kind of bar that is so dark inside it takes your eyes at least 10 minutes to adjust. We sit and chat and catch up, this time without all the stress of making sure things get out of ovens and onto tables, and gossip about the happenings at the meal the day before. Our Thanksgiving get-together is usually\u00a0really large, with close to 40 people in attendance, so the small, intimate\u00a0group time (and cheap drinks) is really nice.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>McKenzie McLoughlin<\/span><\/b>, NAU Communications<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The turkey\u00a0master<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201c<\/span>We all get together at my dad’s house, the table growing more and more filled over the years with new partners, new\u00a0babies\u00a0and new friends. But the one constant is that my husband cooks an amazing turkey! (Here he is carving it\u00a0whilst\u00a0my brother eagerly awaits.)<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chel<\/span><\/b>sea Westfall<\/span><\/b>, pursuing a M.A. in English Literature<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrating Native American heritage<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cAs a proud Native American, this is the perfect time to spend time with family and share stories about our ancestors to the younger generations. The young generations will continue these wonderful teachings.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomantha<\/span><\/b>, College of Education<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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ALL. THE. PIES.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201c3 Pies: Apple, Pumpkin, and Sugar Cream Pie (Aka: Hoosier Pie)\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John\u00a0Gartin<\/span><\/b>, NAU Career Development<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quality crafting time<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>My daughter Michaela is very crafty! Every Thanksgiving we break out the arts and crafts supplies and make decorations for the table and place settings. We save them each year,\u00a0and it’s fun to look back and see how much she’s grown through the things she’s made. Recently, we also started capping off our Thanksgiving night by getting a Groupon for Christmas at the Princess and strolling through the hotel grounds and taking in all the holiday lights!<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria\u00a0DeCabooter<\/span><\/b>, NAU\u00a0Social Media\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Morning meander<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cA long hike in the morning, even if we\u00a0have to\u00a0drive to a lower elevation because of bad weather here on the mountain. My two absolute must-haves\u00a0on the Thanksgiving dining\u00a0room table are: sweet and hot sausage cornbread stuffing and homemade, garlic\u00a0smashed\u00a0potatoes!\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitch\u00a0Strohman<\/span><\/b>, NAU-TV\u00a0and\u00a0Voice of the Lumberjacks<\/span><\/p>\n

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Puzzlin\u2019 for days!<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cAfter the dinner is done and the dishes\u00a0put\u00a0away, our family eats pie and works on a very large jigsaw puzzle. This goes on for two or three days. We talk and laugh and eat a LOT of pie!\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy\u00a0Weinzinger,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Center for International Education<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The more the merrier<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cIn recent years,\u00a0my family has been traveling to Flagstaff for Thanksgiving, and we have expanded our family group to include friends, significant others, parents and siblings of our friends or significant others and more. They say sometimes family is the family we choose, and we’ve\u00a0definitely adopted\u00a0a “the more the merrier” approach to our Thanksgiving celebrations\u00a0<\/span>😊<\/span>“<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary McGee,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Alumni Engagement<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Channeling\u00a0their inner Louie<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

\u201cGoing to cut our Christmas tree as a family.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Samantha White<\/span><\/b>, University Events<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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During a time known for overindulging on food and spending time with family and friends, we asked our Lumberjack community about their favorite Thanksgiving traditions.\u00a0Here are their responses.\u00a0 \u00a0 Tablecloth of memories\u00a0 \u201cWe have a tablecloth that we use on the Thanksgiving table every year. Each year,\u00a0family and guests write what they are thankful for…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}