DENVER (KDVR) — The nonprofit “Longer Tables” invited the community to the Auraria Campus Saturday morning to enjoy lunch at the first-ever “Mile Long Table.”
While salad, chicken and vegetables were served, the most important thing on the menu was human connection.
“There’s a lot of loneliness in our world, and there’s a lot of isolation,” said Tim Jones, Executive Director of Longer Tables. “The table is the most powerful place in the world for humans to connect.”
“We have set the mile-long table,” said Jones. “Where else can you have lunch with three or four or 5,000 of your neighbors?”
The 5,820 feet of tables and chairs were set across the Auraria campus. Guests were encouraged to sit with people they didn’t know, in the hope that the power of sharing a meal would bring people together.
“Hopefully, people of all walks of life sharing lunch with one another and sharing stories,” said Jones. “And hopefully at the end of the day, walking away feeling a little more connected and maybe even walking away with a new friendship.”
Jones hopes to make this an annual event.
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