For the past 20 years, Barry Walker has gotten together with a group of friends on Thanksgiving morning to feed the homeless in their neighborhood. They all bring a dish of traditional holiday food, some gently used clothes and shoes and toiletries and a blanket or two.
In the beginning, these friends gathered around a table where they caught up on each other’s lives, then packed their homemade dishes into take-out containers and headed to feed where people living in their cars, alleyways or under bridges.
The first year they fed 28 people. In 2015, they fed 17,000 people — and they no longer fit around a kitchen table.