
The Thanksgiving Visitor
Last December I posted Truman Capote’s beautiful short memoir, “A Christmas Memory”, a moving story I discovered years ago and enjoy reading each Christmas. This post includes Capote’s companion memoir titled, “The Thanksgiving Visitor”, another heart-warming childhood holiday memory of rural Alabama in 1932.

A Christmas Memory
Many years ago during one Advent season, I discovered an old book in my parent’s home titled “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. I often searched my parents’ book shelves as my mother was an avid collector of old books. To her every one was a treasure. This particular book was a thin, plain, cheaply made book, published in 1956 with the picture above glued to the book cover . . .