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Generations
Four Generations in One Room, Once a Year
Every Memorial Day weekend since 1994, the descendants of Theodore and Ruth Voss have gathered at a state park in central Pennsylvania for a Saturday lunch. In May 2025, four generations sat down to eat at the same long table for the eighth time on record.
Generations
What Kids Inherit Besides Money and DNA
The Larkin family of Asheville keeps a wooden recipe box on top of the refrigerator. It contains 137 index cards, written in four hands across three generations. None of the recipes is famous. Most of them are for cake.
Generations
Grandparents at a Distance: The Video Call as a Second Living Room
Eleanor Brennan is seventy-three and lives in Galway. Her grandson Theo is four and lives in Portland, Maine. They see each other, on a screen propped against a fruit bowl, every Tuesday and Saturday morning.