Saturday, October 19, from 3:30 until 6p, occurred an anecdote afternoon in the Garden Salon. Completed in 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron contains 100 stories told by seven young women and three young men who holed up in a secluded Florentine villa to avoid the Black Plague. The tales of love run from erotic and funny through tragic and serious. We used that framing device to offer narratives of our own. Guests brought accounts of their travels, either real or imagined, and regaled us with practical jokes or life lessons. Medieval music set the mood, and potluck snacks plus sips kept us lubricated.
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