Book 2: Chapter 12, part 1 -- Difficult Meeting

Martin and Dustin manage to get Tin Man to run their little generator. Feelings of success are tempered by a town meeting in which the residents vote on whether to accept federal aid (and the many strings attached) or to decline the aid and face the coming winter on their own, with what little they have. (This chapter is in two parts because it was over an hour long. Part 2, next week.