“There is so much sadness,” Ms. Pomeroy, 48, said. “We’ll celebrate everything like normal, just without the family,” Mr. Ortiz said of his relatives in Puerto Rico. But when her son, Mason, pointed out that the family hadn’t set up their “thankful tree” this year, Ms. Condron said she just felt like she couldn’t do it. Her Thanksgiving dinners were a plate of Americana: turkey, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and everyone at the table taking turns to say why they were thankful. “That’s our mantra: Just stay close with your family,” Ms. Tonks’s mother, Debbie Davis, said.

Source: New York Times November 22, 2017 16:30 UTC