Kim Severson

Millennials are not as attached to cold cereal for breakfast as their forebears, analysts and cereal makers agree. They either don’t eat breakfast at all, or eat it somewhere other than home.

Of the many places to learn the nuances of traditional Thanksgiving etiquette, none are quite like Wardie Sanders’ high school classroom. In this small Southern town, home to a Fortune 500 company, 30 Baptist churches and acres of cotton fields, Sanders has for 16 years taught seniors in her history class at Hartsville High how to eat a proper Thanksgiving meal.

Deanne Westbrook had tried everything to keep her husband, Ronald, in the house. He was 72. Alzheimer's had erased much of his talent for music and flying airplanes.