The build-up to Carding’s town meeting, like all town meetings, is an accretion of small details.

This year, a joke about the cold made to an unappreciative recipient sparked a contest for the open seat on the town’s select board that is turning out to be very controversial.

Right now, that unappreciative recipient, G.G. Dieppe, feels she has the whole town—or at least the part of it that counts with her—in the palm of her hand.

But a chance meeting at St. John’s Episcopal Church (another one of those small details) may be the key to turning the tide.

Here’s a sample of tomorrow’s Carding Chronicle. I sure hope you can stop by.