When it was all ready one afternoon last week - the dry-brined turkey a rosy chestnut brown, the Sister Frances' Potatoes (named for one of the last of the famously celibate Shakers), the brothy, purposefully not creamy blue-pumpkin soup (with a sour jolt of preserved lemon), Melissa Hamilton beamed at what she had wrought.
When Sara Ann Kronrot was born, doctors didn't expect her to live long or be able to see, hear or move without pain. Now 6, the wheelchair-bound girl has endured, inspiring her...




