Podcast: House on Loon Lake

“House on Loon Lake” from This American Life. 56 minutes. A boy breaks into an abandoned house in New Hampshire and takes what he finds. Years later, he goes back to learn what happened to the family who left everything behind. Listen to the episode → Read the transcript → Before the discussion Please listen to the episode beforehand. The evening assumes you have. The transcript is linked if you’d rather read it. Location Notes We meet at the Fairmount Community Library. Bring snacks and drinks if you like, or grab a bite before. Parking is on the street. Waitlist We cap attendance so that everyone at the table can be heard. If you’re waitlisted, keep the RSVP; spots do open up, and there’s another night in a couple of weeks. Group Guidelines This is a space FOR: curious questioning, thoughtful listening, honest sharing, intellectual humility, generous disagreement, genuine connection, playfulness, and the belief that good conversations can be transformative. This is NOT a space for: sales pitches, proselytizing, uninvited romantic advances, adversarial debate, partisan polemics, hate speech, or disrespectful behavior. Related Themes keeping and letting go, inheritance, abandoned things, home, objects and memory, taking what isn’t ours, curiosity, family, what we leave behind