BRATTLEBORO — For more than three decades, the annual Brattleboro Community Thanksgiving Dinner has carried on the tradition of serving meals and sharing friendship.
Dinner will be served buffet-style at the River Garden on Thursday, Nov. 25, from noon until 5 p.m. Everyone is invited, and the meal is free.
In past years, between 500 and 700 people sat down to the community-cooked meal, feasting on favorites like turkey (or vegetarian entrees), roasted root vegetables, gravy, ham, mashed Gilfeather turnips, garlic potatoes, apple crisp and pies.
Volunteers are still needed on Wednesday, Nov. 24, to prepare vegetables and apples for desserts at St. Michael's School's kitchen on Walnut Street. On Thanksgiving Day, volunteers are needed to help set up, transport food between the St. Michael's kitchen and the River Garden, serve at the buffet, or clean up.
To help, contact Ray Branagan, 802-579-4649 or [email protected]; Ian Bigelow, 802-579-7903 or [email protected]; or Katherine Barratt, 802-257-4220 or [email protected].