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Plenty of room for all at Scott Macaulays tables
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Boston Globe
Posted: December 7th, 2015
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/28/after-years-sco...
Scott Macaulay ... fixes vacuum cleaners for a living. This is the 28th year that Macaulay, 52, is hosting Thanksgiving at a Baptist Church in Melrose for people who have no other place to go. They might be widows, or new arrivals to this country, or poor. Some are simply lonely, like the elderly woman with Parkinsons who arrived one year in an ambulance from a nursing home. Every year, Macaulay fashions a living room-dining room tableau inside the First Baptist Church fellowship hall. Except for the occasional small donation, Macaulay finances this all himself, and even though hes frugal, it still costs him more than $1,000. As soon as one Thanksgiving dinner is over, he starts saving for the next, despite his own financial struggles. Still, hes never skipped a dinner, not the year with the ice storm, not the year he passed out while driving, had a car accident, and was rushed to the hospital, where he got a pacemaker. He didnt even cancel it this year, after getting word last Friday that the church ovens were broken and wouldnt be fixed on time. He simply arranged a late switch to the Green Street Baptist Church. The largest crowd hes had was 89 people. Hes refined and expanded the menu over the years; it now includes frozen meatballs as the hors doeuvres and canned fruit cocktail with a daub of pink sherbet. Its fabulous, said an 88-year-woman, a widow many, many, many years, who ... goes to Macaulays meal every year.
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