Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

The blue tin recipe box smelled of dried dill, but the slip of paper tucked behind the recipe card for Swedish meatballs was not about cooking.

It was a check for exactly one hundred dollars, dated July 5, 1937, made out to my grandfather, Ken Daigneau.

Clara wrapped another heavy ceramic dinner plate in newsprint and dropped it into a cardboard box continue reading …