The remains of a social house

Tom Pfingsten Special to the Village News

On a Wednesday night in early April, Faro Trupiano climbed into his car outside 127 West Social House, the restaurant he’d opened a year earlier inside a relatively ancient building on the corner of Main and Elder, and drove home.

He’d spent the evening at his other place, Trupiano’s Italian Bistro, and on his way out of town, he noticed the lights were still on at 127 West, which he refers to by the digits “one-two-seven,” as if by a call sign. Inside, the bartender and busser were almost done with their closing duties, wiping clean the residue of a w...