Open Table in the News!
Hungry together: Free suppers and food pantries across the region offer fellowship and some relief from stigma of being in need. By Calvin Hennick Boston Globe Correspondent / November 21, 2010
Lisa Richards, a Framingham resident, works two jobs, one as a personal care attendant and another driving a van for senior citizens. Acton resident Julie Neubauer works part time in retail. Virginia Loftus, also of Acton, receives a disability pension. All three women bring in some sort of income, but all three still need help putting food on the table. Read more........
A Taste of Home. Project Bread, Fall 2010 Newsletter
Open Table is featured in a moving article in Project Bread's Fall 2010 newsletter. Read more........
Where the Seeds End Up. by Heidi Gengenbach, Gaining Ground. Issue 26, Spring, 2010.
Getting to know our recipients better — the organizations that receive our produce, and the individuals and families they serve — is one of Gaining Ground’s 2010 initiatives........ To share what we’re learning, in this issue we spotlight one woman whose life and family have been transformed by her involvement with our closest local partner, Open Table. Read more........
The Welcoming Open Table. by Lisa Loomis, ConcordPatch. November, 2010.
Every Monday and Thursday afternoon, the activity picks up at The Open Table, a weekly community food supper program, in both Concord and Maynard. Donated food shipments are sorted from local markets, cooks volunteers arrive to cook and preparations are made to make the guests feel welcome. By the time hungry guests arrive, they will find an open table overfilled with food. Read more.......
These tables are open to all....... By Kathryn Riley, GateHouse News Service, Jan. 2010.
Dinner didn’t officially start until 5:30 p.m., but the meeting room in the Union Congregational Church was already comfortably filled as guests poured themselves a drink, grabbed a snack, and took a seat with fellow diners at one of the ten tables available. Read more...
Open Table: Nourishment in a Weary World. By Glenn Rifkin, Gatehouse News Service, Dec. 2007.
How far that little candle throws his beams, so shines a good deed in a weary world.
– William Shakespeare
Sometimes, in the middle of a weary world that often makes little sense and feels devoid of destination, there are small rituals that offer a brief respite and a warm welcome to people who need both. These tiny communities can and do pop up in many places for an endless list of reasons, especially this time of year. Here in Concord, on Thursday evenings at the First Parish Church, such a community coalesces each week for a simple purpose: to offer a meal, a bag of groceries and a calm reprieve to a group of people who have encountered the indiscriminate touch of hunger. Read more...