Turkey Time Travails

Photo by Ken Williams for The Concord Monitor We are starting to feel like the Waltons. Another holiday season is upon us and the Broadbents and the Ellinwoods are as broke as that fictional 1970s teevee family. Oh those Waltons. We used to love to watch their homespun holidays; for Thanksgiving Daddy would go out and shoot a big old turkey, and they’d bow their heads over their mismatched china and brown food and Grandpa would recite long passages from the bible. It was so foreign and humble and cute to our teenaged eyes and ears, with not a Pillsbury Crescent or string bean casserole in sight. And then when Christmas rolled around we loved how their tree was trimmed with homemade ornaments, and all the presents they exchanged seemed to be made out of corn cobs and worn flannel. It made for good television but we bet even Jim Bob couldn’t whittle an IPod, not if he spent a month of Sundays, as Mary Ellen would say. We’ve asked around and it seems that a lot of folks are feeling the pinch this year, despite the soaring stock market and the million dollar Wall Street bonuses. Everyone we know is working harder than ever – taking on new jobs or …

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