Grit

LABOR DAY, 1959

hey set up sawhorses across the old barnyard in two long lines, planks laid across to make tables, food arranged down the center. Neighbors brought whatever chairs they could cart to line the sides. Maybe a hundred people came and went throughout the afternoon. There was food for an army; every wife seemed to bring a

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