Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

from a porcelain pot that had belonged to her mother.

I reached into my purse and pulled out the yellowed paper I had carried for five weeks.

I laid the original 1937 uncashed check on the lace tablecloth between us.

“This belongs to Mary’s family now,” I said.

Evelyn looked at the eighty-six-year-old signature of the company treasurer continue reading …