The Grandmother Who Never Unplugged the Coffee Pot

In the small town of Bardstown, Kentucky, Martha Edelen kept a coffee pot warming on her kitchen counter every single day for forty-three years. Her grandchildren thought it was eccentric. Her neighbors called it wasteful. But Martha had her reasons. Her husband, Colonel James Edelen, had served three tours overseas, and twice he had come home unannounced — once at 2:00 a.…