
Happy second birthday, princess. You will always be daddy’s little girl.

Turkeys have walked wild on this continent since the last ice age, whereas Old Europe was quite turkeyless. Corn pudding may be the oldest New World comfort food; pumpkins and cranberries, too, are exclusively ours. It’s all American, the right stuff at the right time. To this tasty assembly add a cohort of female relatives sharing work and...

Full in the passage of the vale, above, A sable, silent, solemn forest stood; Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood: And up the hills, on either side, a wood Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood;...