Friendship fruit salad at Locust Grove

Zane Cronkrite, 6.

Addison Evans, 6.

Isabel Walker, 6.

Travon Orr, 6.

 Travon Orr, 6, bottom right, and his kindergarten classmates at Locust Grove Elementary School replayed Thanksgiving  between Native Americans and the pilgrims, Wednesday, November 21, 2012, with 'friendship fruit salad'.

Izaiah Stansbury, 6.

Lining up for turkeys

Hundreds of people lined up Tuesday at the York Benevolent Association for their free Thanksgiving do-it-yourself  dinner, including turkeys. 

Officials there said lines have never been this long, and traffic control was necessary to keep the peace. People waiting in their cars in the handicapped line were even seen squeezing into line, and the line sometimes reached around the corner a block away. 

It's a shame that there's even a need for places like the Benevolent Association, but there are a few hundred people in York who are glad it's here.

Learning about Thanksgiving

Visited York Adventist Christian School Thursday afternoon for the school's recycling program and found a small tribe of Native Americans/kindergartners learning about Thanksgiving and its traditions.

 Kindergartners Caleb Romero, 6, left,  Leila Murray, 6, Kiara Morrobel, 5, and Lili Seda, 6, pose in their Native American costumes.

Can't help but be impressed by the school's small class sizes and obvious care, ability and friendliness of its teachers.

The kindergartners explained to me about the sharing of food between the Native
Americans and the pilgrims, about Plymouth Rock, how they survived the cold and how they fertilized the farm fields.

Of course, I couldn't resist taking pictures of this small tribe, first with a cute smiley pose, and then with a silly pose.