On Thanksgiving afternoon in 1903, the twenty-two Schuylers gather in the old House on Sycamore Street, a home so steeped in births, marriages, and memories that it seems to hold the family's entire history within its walls. At the center is Mathilda Schuyler, tireless, proud, and overburdened, presiding over a feast of apple butter, winesap apples, cookies, tortes, and taffy that reflects the family's abundance, ritual, and affectionate order. Fannie Hurst turns the holiday table into a vivid study of teasing, tenderness, and buried tension, as the Old Gentleman's humor, Emma's bluntness, and Rebekka's quiet intelligence reveal a household bound together by love and care. But celebration gives way to shock when the patriarch announces that Mathilda is pregnant, sending the family into a mixture of embarrassment, outrage, and concern. From there the novel widens into scenes of childhood wonder, patriotic argument, and domestic strain: David's imaginative "Indian in the Corn" games root him in the fields and legends of Centralia, while a later family dinner erupts over war, sacrifice, and true devotion to country. Across these episodes, Hurst traces the beauty of ordinary life, the pain of family loyalty, and the deep ties between memory, place, and identity. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.