Hey, gang,
In the past, we’ve speculated on what Thanksgiving Day must have been like at the great house of Collinwood; who was invited to Collinwood for dinner, what exactly did Mrs. Johnson prepare for the Thanksgiving dinner and how delicious (or lousy) was it, and did Carolyn, and possibly Roger, regale everyone with festive, seasonal songs in the drawing room of Collinwood?
Yet, I don’t think that we ever speculated on what Thanksgiving Day was like for some of the other residents of Collinsport. Did Maggie prepare dinner for her beloved father, Sam, and her beloved boyfriend/ future husband, Joe Haskell, (until “you-know-who” showed up in town)?
And, what of Joe’s family? I believe Joe’s father was killed years before in an accident while he was at sea,
working as a fisherman for the Collins fishing fleet. Apparently, Joe’s mother was still alive. Did Joe have
siblings? And, did the members of the Haskell family also enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with Joe’s future wife and
her dad?
Of course, there were also the members of the Jennings family, Chris, Tom and little Amy, and Joe’s cousins. What was their Thanksgiving Day dinner like? Maybe they also had dinner at the Evans cottage with Joe and his family?
And, then there were the apparent bachelors of Collinsport, Maine: Doctor Dave Woodard, the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker, and, possibly, Sheriff George Patterson, the venerable Ezra Braithwaite and the unfailingly convivial proprietor/head bartender of The Blue Whale, Bob Rooney. How did they celebrate Thanksgiving Day? Was the Collinsport Inn coffee shop open on Thanksgiving Day for the “lonely guys” of Collinsport to have someplace to get a turkey dinner on November 23? (And, I hope like heck, that Maggie did NOT have to work on that day!)
Yes, more mundane aspects of life in Collinsport, I think we all would have liked to have seen unfold at 4:00 PM on ABC across the USA.
Oh, yes, Happy Thanksgiving to all of our DSF cousins and, please, no contentious arguments at the Thanksgiving dinner table regarding such varied topics of discussion as who’s better for America, Donald Trump or Joe Biden or just how long the Taylor
Swift/Travis Kelce romance will last.
Bob