Under the Guide
Family Hub
A family is a set of people who do not want the same evening. The map draws a line where a story clears both floors. The center is what the whole table can watch. Pass that list to the house.
The living map
8 for the whole table
Each person is tied to the table. The number is how many titles clear every floor, including the youngest.
The whole table
These clear every person at the table. Start here if the house is in one room.
- The Holy Bible, King James VersionThe standard itself. Read it. The meter does not improve it.
- The Declaration of IndependenceA people stating why they are leaving a king. The sheet was heard in a yard, not kept as a private letter.
- Common SensePlain words, written to be read aloud. The name stayed off the first printing because the charge was treason.
- Little House on the PrairieThe standard, filmed. Work, a house, prayer, a town, and something left in the ground for the people after them.
- Poor Richard's AlmanackWeather, planting, and a proverb. A tool kept the whole year.
- Robinson CrusoeThe work is the glory. The lack of a house to go back to is the hole.
- The American CrisisWritten to be read to men who were about to cross a river in the dark.
- The New England PrimerMemorized. The alphabet and a doctrine, in the same rhyme.
Private to this house
Pass a story on
A note written here stays in this browser, on this device. It is not an account. It is not sent to us, not sold, and not shown on any other page. A grandchild reads it here, when you hand them this device. The public “pass the evening” button above does not include these notes.
Nothing passed on yet. A grandparent can start.
For Annie, Louise, and Kiki
Tell your story
Tap your name. Tap a picture. Tap how it felt. The letter fills in. It stays on this device.
- 1 Name
- 2 Show
- 3 Why
No story yet. Tap your name and send one.
Who is at the table
- 78
- 76
- 75
- 74
- 46
- 45
- 13
- 9
- 5
- Grandparent. Temperance at 6, the meter at 60.
- Parent. The meter at 50. The wider evening.
- Youth. Temperance at 5, the household at 5.
- Child. Temperance and the household at 7, the meter at 70.