Articles Tagged: Thanksgiving

This year’s lucky birds named after Iowa basketball star

Iowa Giving Coalition gave away 2,000 Thanksgiving meals last weekend, 1,400 of which went to people in Cedar Rapids.

Holiday travel in Iowa and across the nation is predicted to be up this year over Thanksgiving as travelers can expect to see lower gas prices, busy roads and airports -- and potential weather delays. Here’s what to expect.

Boys and girls wrote Thanksgiving stories, letters for 1910 edition

Here are the desserts bakers and chefs around the Corridor have made a tradition in their families — and how they find comfort in making food at home for pleasure after working long days in the kitchen.

Iowa travelers will see bustling airports, clear roads, busy highways and lower prices at the pump this week. The Thanksgiving holiday travel period is expected to be the busiest in several years and a record-setter for air travel.

The adage never to talk religion or politics with family and friends — especially over dinner or the holidays — is getting harder to follow these days given those off-limits subjects increasingly are bleeding into topics historically deemed safer, like the cost of the turkey, the weather, or even Taylor Swift.

A Thanksgiving prank in 2017 is still going strong six years later after gaining non-profit status and making big expansions.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig recently spoke with The Gazette about the status and impact of bird flu on Iowa’s poultry industry and how it could effect turkey prices heading into Thanksgiving.

Kim Reynolds signaled a return to normalcy Tuesday by pardoning two turkeys while cautioning Iowans to remain vigilant against COVID-19 when they gather for Thanksgiving celebrations.

Two men — an immigrant and a dentist — provided 30 years of free Thanksgiving dinners in Cedar Rapids