Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

are not in the general catalog.”

“I need to look up a woman named Mary,” I said. “She worked there during the summer of the naming contest.”

Robert breathed on the glass and wiped it with a yellow microfiber cloth.

He cleared his throat again. “The pre-war personnel files were destroyed in the 1950 archive fire, to be precise. There continue reading …