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PHOTOS: Meals and merriment on Thanksgiving

Avatar photo by Paul Franz November 27, 2025November 27, 2025

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People pick up plates of food and desserts at a Thanksgiving Day meal at Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo

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  • Trouble Mandeson serves up turkey at Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
  • People enjoy a Thanksgiving meal at Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
  • Jac Essing of New Haven, Connecticut, visiting her Greenfield friend Matt Ashby, enjoy a meal at Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo

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  • Montague Elks Lodge members Kim Bergeron, Rod Demers and Justin Demers distribute, plate and carve turkey at the Montague Elks Lodge in Turners Falls, which provided 200 meals on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
  • Montague Elks Lodge members Justin Simpson and John Grace serve up mashed potatoes at the Elks Lodge in Turners Falls, which provided 200 meals on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
  • Terry Eaklor of Millers Falls picks up eight turkey dinners to distribute to homebound friends from Montague Elks Lodge members Bill Trombi, left, and Allie Cooke on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
  • Honey Ann Sholunas and her husband Elvis Sholunas have turkey dinners at the Montague Elks Lodge in Turners Falls on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
  • Turners Falls resident Dan Parker wears his homemade turkey hat while picking up a meal at the Montague Elks Lodge in Turners Falls on Thanksgiving. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo

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