The Table That Held Everything

In 2019, a family in Birmingham, Alabama, nearly threw out their grandmother's oak kitchen table. It was scratched, stained with decades of Thanksgiving gravy, and one leg wobbled. But before the truck came, Marcus Reynolds sat down at it one last time and ran his fingers across a faint ring where his grandmother's coffee mug always sat. He remembered how she had served him soup at that table after his mother's funeral.…