A Story-Sharing Supper is a community potluck dinner that features recipe and story sharing, with live storytelling performance and/or readings at the end of each supper. It’s dinner and a show! Our theme for this Story-Sharing Supper is A Winter's Tale. We'll enjoy stories and conversations that touch on this theme.

Picture it: Family and friends, old and new, of all generations gathered together around a table—or two, pushed together—set with abundant food. The meal is a mix of old recipes and new: dishes made by great-grandparents sit next to gluten-free finds from the internet, and additions brought by neighbors and friends representing their family and food traditions. The conversation is lively, the conflicts are, for the moment, set aside. For this meal, there is a seat for everyone, gathered together and convivially sharing food and conversation regardless of political beliefs, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or economic status.

Community members, like you, bring food or drink (non-alcoholic only) to share. Throughout the evening, you'll receive story sharing prompts to facilitate conversations and connection with others. After the supper, a mini community cookbook is created from the dishes shared, with each guest getting a copy of the cookbook. Registration is required.

About Community Plate: Born from the work begun in the Maine Community Cookbooks, Community Plate is dedicated to facilitating connection and building community through a common language of food, shared food stories and recipes, and the preservation of family food histories. https://www.communityplate.me/

Community Plate founders Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz are the wife and husband team behind seven books on food and farming, including the memoir The Year of the Goat, the guide Living With Goats, two volumes of the Portland, Maine Chef’s Table cookbook, the Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook and Maine Community Cookbook, Volume 2. Margaret is a writer and goat farmer. In addition to being the author of seven books, she is a regular contributor to Taproot Magazine, and has worked in cookbook publishing and as manager of New York’s landmark Magnolia Bakery. Karl is a photographer, journalist, and goat farmer. He has worked as a Digital Producer at ABC Television, a Photo Editor at Time Magazine, and as Director of Aurora Photos. Since 2005, the couple has lived with their three daughters on Ten Apple Farm, their homestead and agritourism business in southern Maine, where they raise dairy goats, tend a large garden and small orchard, lead goat hikes, teach workshops, and operate a guest house. You can visit them at tenapplefarm.com, or on Instagram @tenapplefarm.

NOTE: This community event will be held at Wescustogo Hall/North Yarmouth Community Center in North Yarmouth.