2 episodes · 48 min
Potluck
Forty-four years of suppers in one grange hall, told by the woman who ran the kitchen and set ten extra places at every one of them.
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She was handed the kitchen of a brand new building at twenty-four, by a committee of men who had not thought about the kitchen once in two years of building it.
Each episode is one supper: who came, what was brought, who sat where, and the one thing that happened that everybody there still remembers and nobody has ever agreed about. A funeral dinner. A wedding nobody expected. The year the freezer failed. The night the whole township came and the hall had chairs for half of them.
She set ten extra places at every supper for forty-four years. There is a reason, and it walked in the door at a quarter past one on a Thursday afternoon in March of nineteen sixty-eight.