Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

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The official registry had to be somewhere in this town, and I was going to find it.

By nine the next morning, I was downstairs in the historical society archive basement.

The air was thick with the scent of damp newsprint, and the overhead fluorescent tubes hummed with a low, irritating buzz.

I pulled open the drawer of a vintage continue reading …