Twenty-seven Years at the Cowan Cafe, Tennessee
Story Narrative:
What's your favorite memory of living in a small town?
Speaker 1: I'm not a good talker.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 3: It's okay. Just tell them what you did.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I had a café in Cowan. Speaker 3: It's called the Cowan Café.
Speaker 1: Cowan Café, for 27 years.
Speaker 3: And what'd y'all serve there? Breakfast, lunch?
Speaker 1: Yeah, from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 at night, seven days a week.
Speaker 1: Wonderful things in there, and everyone in the county helped me. The old men would bring me things; they said, Ruth save that, and I saved them there over at the museum in Franklin.
Speaker 3: She now works at the museum in Winchester. She still works, she works at the Old Jail Museum in Winchester.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I get paid, and I accept it because I go from 10:00 in the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She's 91. She's not going to be able to . . .
Speaker 2: Impressive.
Speaker 3: Work again, so she's . . .
Speaker 1: My girls are trying to talk me out of.
Speaker 3: She's worked all her life.
Speaker 1: But I don't like to stay at home.
Asset ID: 7419
Tags: #Community #Work #TheWayWeWorked #Restaurants
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