Thanksgiving & Black Friday

Thanksgiving is America's most cherished family holiday — the 1621 harvest feast remembered around the turkey table, with gratitude at its heart. The next morning, Black Friday opens the biggest shopping weekend of the year, and the season of giving begins. These are the stones of that long weekend: moss agate, the old harvest stone; the family stones — amber, the moonstones, agate and tiger's eye of home and hearth; and garnet and topaz, the gems of friendship since antiquity, topaz among them one of November's birthstones. For its beauty, its story, and whatever meaning you give it.