They arrive, carrying tasty treasures. One Wednesday a month they gather to eat, tell story’s and share in family.
After grace… it’s time to eat!
"There’s always more food than you can possibly eat," said first cousin Ruth Schaub Egan.
This all started when the five Egan sisters and a sister-in-law would meet at the lake each week and let the kids play together.
"When we were young, when I was a kid, my mom and all of her sisters would take us up to Duck Lake," said Ruth. "And we’d all get together for the same thing, only it was every Wednesday during the summer."
This version of the pot luck began in 1985, when the oldest of the Egan sisters passed and it was decided to rekindle the tradition. And it’s been going strong ever since, averaging between 20 and 40 each month.
"So there’s all those families and all those cousins. Some of the cousins come from families of 10 or 12. So there’s a bunch of us."
Aunt Laura and Aunt Mary are the only remaining members of the original ladies group that started all of this. And they hold a respected position.
Great food, amazing deserts and a little silly fun is what makes these pot lucks so enduring. And with the summer coming, the kids will be joining back in, and the tradition will be ingrained in another generation.
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