Whereas my family often naturally separates into groups of younger and older people, Thanksgiving is the holiday where we really try to be all in the same room together, young and old. Kenneth Guest writes about the power of kinship networks to support and nurture the next generation, and Thanksgiving is a function of that attempt to pass on a piece of cultural heritage from one generation to the next.

Guest, Kenneth J. Essentials of cultural anthropology a toolkit for a global age. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.