Thu, 02/04/2021 - 3:08pm
meganj
By:
John Flowers
ANDY NAGY-BENSON, SENIOR pastor of the Congregational Church of Middlebury, is spearheading “Table 21,” a pop-up nonprofit that will disburse $300,000 in donated money to local restaurants and farms financially hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo by Caleb Kenna
Found pennies come from heaven
That’s what my grandpa told me.
He said Angels tossed them down
Oh, how I loved that story!
So goes the Charles Mashburn poem, a cute ode to found money.
The Congregational Church of Middlebury is living its own version of the poem, and it speaks to a much larger sum — $300,000 — recently donated by a distant angel dedicated to easing the financial burdens of Middlebury-area restaurants and farms hurt by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.