This reminds me of my grandmother who would have celebrated Thanksgiving in 1942 with my grandfather and their year-old daughter (Mom). Granny passed in 1978, but I can still remember Thanksgiving dinners at their house. Everything was prepared from scratch and made the old-fashioned way. I think she would have died from shame if she ever served a store bought dessert. It would have been more challenging in 1942 with all the strict war rationing. People had to conserve ingredients and ration stamps for weeks in order to lay on a respectable Thanksgiving dinner.

It's nice to see a local picture; Neffsville is less than 30 minutes from here, and the Landis surname is very common. I'm willing to bet Mrs. Landis baked good shoofly pies at other times, too.