The Grange was (and in parts of the country, still is) an organization of farming people, sort of a Guild, or mutual aid society. You can probably read of its history in any decent encyclopedia. Caroline and I joined the Grange in Huntington, Vermont, when we first moved to that village in 1961. Mostly, it had become just a social gathering of folks from other farms in the neighborhood. Fun, though!

When we came down here to Connecticut, we felt that our membership was no longer justified (if it had ever been -- all we raised in Huntington, Vermont, was one cow, some chickens, a dozen Malamutes, and a whole lot of hell with the locaal school system!). Also fun.

Sandy