Colonel Crockett’s Co-operative Christmas

Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas unfolds through two letters from a homesick Texan stranded in New York City over the holidays. In the first, Austin Crockett describes the crushing loneliness of spending Christmas night among four million strangers, a misery sharper than shipwreck or fever. In the second, written a year later, he reveals his audacious remedy: renting Madison Square Garden and throwing a free Christmas party for every friendless stranger in the city — transforming isolation into a roaring, tearful, joyful celebration of community.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.