Brimfield Bread Oven will still serve Thanksgiving delights despite losing part of its roof

Brimfield Bread Oven’s wood-fired oven is still burning despite the pandemic shuttering small businesses across the country — and despite the roof literally coming off.

As the team prepared for hundreds of orders and long hours for Thanksgiving week, all that was thrown into question when last weekend’s wind storm swept up part of the bakery’s roof. Brimfield Bread Oven owners Jud and Genevieve Smith sent an email out Monday telling customers they couldn’t yet promise they’d be open. But after assessing the damage, they determined everything will go ahead mostly like usual: The scents of fresh apple pies and decorative loaves, Thanksgiving menu specials, will soon waft through the bakery during, by far, its busiest week of the year.