Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

and laid the color photocopy of the 1937 contest card on the clean wood surface next to her dust cloth.

Evelyn looked down at the copy, her knuckles turning white as she pressed her clasped hands together. “Where did you get this document?”

“It was in my grandfather’s attic, inside a rusted flour tin,” I said. “Look at the signature line, Evelyn. Or continue reading …