"A bench in Lafayette Park opposite the White House is the setting for a unique Thanksgiving Dinner Thursday. Washington's Community for Creative Non-Violence sponsored the dinner for homeless men, women and children from the community. After the dinner, the sponsoring organization intended to erect tents to shelter the homeless and to be a visible reminder of their protest of Reagan administration cutbacks in social programs."
"Jefferson, Iowa, Nov. 27 - Blessings of Iowa Soil - As a reminder of Iowa's blessings for abundant crops, this display of grains and garden produce adorns the altar of First Methodist Church here. Des Moines Register & Tribune photographer Jervas Baldwin caught the black-and-white beauty of this Thanksgiving display for the third year from crops he has grown."
"Preparation for a Parade - Workmen adjust eye of a "Doodlebug", one of 29 floats in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that will get underway Thursday in New York City. The floats were built at the parade warehouse in Hoboken, N.J. under the supervision of Manfred Bass, float designer."
"New York, Nov. 26 - Look, Up in the Air! - "Underdog," one of the favorites of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, descends toward the crowd as it approaches Herald Square during the 55th annual parade in Manhattan Thursday."
"New York, Nov. 29 - A Big Bird Float - Crowds pack the sidewalk Thursday along New York's Times Square as a float holding a thirty-foot-tall turkey goes by in the Thanksgiving parade. The traditional bird was one of the 41 floats scheduled to participate."
"Ladies Into Farmarettes/They were called ladies and wore long skirts or - for some activities - bloomers, but the female of the species kept the home fires burning in World War I. They marched in parades, boosted sales of Liberty Bonds, practiced Home Defense tactics, took up gardening in backyards and on golf courses. These farmerettes were students and faculty members of Western College at Oxford, Ohio."
"Painting of the first Thanksgiving by Sydney E. King, Virginia artist, depicts the scene in December of 1619, when a group of 39 colonists observed a day of Thanksgiving on the banks of the James River at Berkeley Plantation in Virginia."
"Peru, Ind., Nov. 23 - Ready for Thanksgiving - Beverly Enyeart prepares pies for the Thanksgiving Day dinner she and her husband and eight children are preparing for anyone who wants to come. The Enyearts say preparing for the meal is a labor of love."
"Road to Revolution/Russia entered World War I as it started 50 years ago with an army which was massive but badly armed. She suffered quick body blows from Germany and went on to one disaster after another. She lost 1.650,000 men killed, 3,850,000 wounded and 2,410,000 prisoners before the 1917 revolution which ousted the tsar and ended her part in the war. Here reservists, accompanied by
"Slow Road to Victory/With the slow motion of World War I, a convoy of horse-drawn carts carries French artillery over a road near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium, in August, 1917. The war had started three years earlier, with the German invasion of Belgium in violation of a treaty guaranteeing the country's neutrality. Britain, France and Russia came to their ally's support, and the four-year war was
"New York, Nov. 26 - Kermit Visits the Big Apple - "Kermit the Frog", a popular character from the television program "The Muppets Show," floats overhead near Manhattan's Herald Square Thursday during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It takes 25 balloon handlers to manage the 24-foot wide, six-story-tall balloon."
"Hat Tricks - Magician Randy Naylor performs a hat trick for children at a Thanksgiving feast provided by the Enyeart family./Chuck and Beverly Enyeart always had more than enough on their Thanksgiving table, so this year they decided to invite some extra guests - the entire town." The event took place at the St. Charles School Gymnasium where over 200 people were present.
"On Thursday, Nov. 26, Americans will be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. These people, below, are some of the newsmakers for the year that will be among those counting their blessings on the day Americans set aside for giving thanks. Top row, from left: President Ronald Reagan, Suzanne Somers, Gerry Faust and Dave Woodward. Bottom from left: Mary Gohlke, Dan Rather, Fernando Valenzuela and Moorhead Kennedy."
"Dinner in the Park - Part of a crowd of 150 people file through a Thanksgiving dinner line in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington Thursday. The meal was organized by the Community for Creative Non-Violence, whose leader Mitch Snyder said that 500 to 1,000 meals would be served before the day ended."
"Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Nov. 24 - First Thanksgiving in a New Land - Four-year-old Sengthavy Sengsourya gets first hand examination of his first Thanksgiving turkey Wednesday night. His parents, Laotian refugees who fled to the U.S. from Thailand last December, were preparing for their first Thanksgiving Day dinner in their new homeland."
"With the Yanks in France in World War I, Americans learned the names - and nicknames - of Allied military leaders, along with their own. Here, somewhere in France, are four of the top men: Left to right, Gen. Joseph Joffre - Papa Joffre - idol of the French poilu; Gen. Ferdinand Foch, Allied commander-in-chief; unidentified officer (in back;) Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Tommies' hero, and Gen. John J. - Black Jack - Pershing, commander of the AEF, the American Expeditionary Force."
discuss his decisions lost men and time./Right: David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer who pulled things together after he became prime minister, brought civilian experts into the cabinet but could not win full control over the generals as he led the country toward victory in 1918."
"Beginning of Peace/President Woodrow Wilson himself traveled to Europe to attend the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I. Here, he addresses and reviews troops of the American Expeditionary Force at Chaumont, in France, on Christmas Day 1918." Next to President Wilson is General John J. Pershing.
"Breaking Point/Isolationist at the start, the United States moved step by step to participation in World War I. President Woodrow Wilson, reluctant to abandon neutrality, here addresses Congress in Washington to advise the legislators of the break in diplomatic relations with Germany, in February, 1917. The break came after the Germans resumed unrestricted submarine warfare."
-line desolation at the River Yperlee near Ypres, in 1917./Bottom: Fifty years and a second war after World War I, Flanders' fields lie in quiet peace on the River Yperlee near Ypres."
