3 days ago
What It Takes to Keep Those Family Reunions, Picnics and Funfetti Cupcakes Going
The Walker family gathers on a hilltop family farm in West Virginia every July, sleeping in tents and trailers. Cousins sit beside the campfire, eat biscuits and gravy and French toast in the morning and roast marshmallows in the evening. The kids run around. The parents talk.
Ginger Walker Lilly's dad started the tradition more than 50 years ago, and she and her 36 first cousins kept it going after her parents died. Now that she is 78, her sons and the second and third generation of cousins are taking over more roles to make sure it continues for their kids and grandkids.
