A STORIED YEAR
were great storytellers, perhaps because they were born pre-internet, pre-TV, even pre-radio. My great-grandmother Marie was one of them. She used to tell me how she and some other turn-of-the-last-century tweens caused a commotion midway through the first motion picture they’d ever seen. They had upended the chairs and tables in a saloon in a mad rush to the door because
