Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Hamlin prepare a dessert for Thanksgiving at their home in Falmouth Foreside, while their sons Jeffrey, age 4, and Richard, age 7, look on. This photo, taken by staff photographer Donald Johnson, ran in the Portland Press Herald on Thanksgiving Day in 1954. Donald Johnson/Staff Photographer

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