Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

expecting to see his neat, sloping handwriting on the reverse side, perhaps a date or a name written in his blue ink. The back of the photograph was completely blank, save for a small pencil mark in the corner indicating the year nineteen thirty-seven.

“You should keep it,” Clara said.

“I will,” I said, sliding the photograph back into the gray envelope.continue reading …