Accidental text leads to friendship and Thanksgiving
Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench make a pie for their seventh Thanksgiving together in Mesa in 2022 after an accidental text brought them together in 2016.
Holidays are all about traditions.
Sort of. They’re also about whatever person or event you’re celebrating. But people love to wear costumes and trick or treat at Halloween, or hunt eggs at Easter. My personal traditions include leaving the Christmas tree up well into January, and one year waiting so long to buy a pumpkin that my children had to carve squash for Halloween.
True story.
Beyond watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and then eating too much turkey and falling asleep during football games, what else is there? We enlisted the help of some experts to answer the question: Does Arizona have any Thanksgiving traditions?
This week on Valley 101, a podcast by The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, I spoke with Betsy LaVoie about the Fountain Hills Thanksgiving parade, Alan Collier about the Mesa Turkey Trot and Kent Somers about the Territorial Cup, the football rivalry game between Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.
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