Commentary.

Sorting through the box of scrapbooks and newspaper clippings in my attic, the story of the first two decades of my involvement in community, 4-H, FFA, school activities and more was well documented in our local newspaper. Every basketball and football game, every church event, the county fair, Chamber of Commerce meetings, County Farm Bureau, business ribbon cuttings, school plays – I could go on – was well documented in that newspaper that arrived weekly in our mailbox at Rural Route 2 and later in my mailbox on the ground floor of my college dormitory.

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