Home For The Holidays Magazine

Page 38 2022 Home For The Holidays Lincoln Daily News November 23, 2022 olidays are a great time for making memories and a couple local families with longtime roots in Logan County have certainly mastered the art of preserving those memories. Just a simple white tablecloth Let’s start with a family tradition that dates back more than sixty years ago. Mount Pulaski native and local insurance agent, Corey Leonard, shares a unique story about what started out as a simple white tablecloth long before he was even born. His paternal grandmother, Imogene Leonard, laid out a plain white tablecloth on a long dining room table and not only did she serve her family and other special guest’s meals on it throughout the years, but she also asked them to sign their names on it. She would then embroider those names by hand on the tablecloth, thus preserving their signatures forever. She would also embroider all the names in different colored thread, said Leonard. Simple holiday traditions turn into the sweetest treasures H “It’s in pretty good shape for being just a white tablecloth,” said Leonard. “You think it would be stained and in not great condition, but it’s aged pretty well for being a white tablecloth that several people have now eaten on. It wasn’t something that she always had out as I recall, but she would get it out for new people who had not signed it and maybe she had not ever prepared a meal for.” As of right now there are 55 signatures on the tablecloth and as Leonard explained, “She didn’t just get it out for anybody, so it’s not covered in names but there’s a lot of people on it who passed away years and years ago.” Continued —