Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

did not answer immediately. She reached for a thick, leather-bound volume on the low table between us, its spine embossed with gold lettering that read *The First Fifty Years*.

She opened the book to a marked page and pointed to a black-and-white photograph of my grandfather smiling next to a giant blue and yellow metal can.

“This is the official record continue reading …