Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

the prize, why did the money sit in his recipe box for eighty-six years?”

“Maybe he forgot,” Clara said, her words running together. “Maybe he was sentimental. People keep old things.”

“You don’t forget a hundred dollars in the middle of the Great Depression,” I said.

“You are going to ruin this for us,” Clara said, her foot tapping continue reading …