The Longest Table

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The Longest Table, October 14, 2018

I love this photograph. It shows the “Longest Table,” an occasional event when Tallahassee comes together as a community to break bread and give thanks. 

The City decided to hold one yesterday after the stress and strains of Hurricane Michael last week. The long table set out for a community supper was right down the middle of Duval Street between the Capitol and the Florida Supreme Court building.

Here is a photo posted by a friend showing the Court behind the gathering of kindred souls. We all give thanks.

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Published by Robert Craig Waters

Robert Craig Waters is a Florida writer. After leaving journalism in the early 1980s, he worked as an attorney, communications director, and public spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee for 35 years. He grew up on a family farm in Beulah, Florida, not far from the Alabama border, before attending Brown University in the 1970s. His mother's family traces its roots to Weaverville, North Carolina. His father's family is from the small village of Burnt Corn, Alabama, where Mr. Waters spent part of his childhood.

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