For close to 50 years, my predecessor Ron Green Sr. wrote a Thanksgiving Day column, listing some of the things he was thankful for in his elegant prose.
Every year I looked forward to reading that column, as did thousands of other readers. It was an Observer tradition, and Ron wrote it long after his official retirement, ending it with his final Thanksgiving Day column in 2019.
But this year I asked Ron — who is alive, well and 92 years old, living with his wife Beth in south Charlotte — if I could revive that tradition in his honor.