I spoke at the Fountain Park Chautauqua in Remington, Indian on July 17 on the topic From Cradle to Grave: The Impact of Sears Roebuck on Rural America. My goal was to get the audience to say, “I didn’t know that.” It didn’t take long. Sears and Roebuck was engaged in numerous activities to benefit rural America that few people know about such as paying the salaries of county agents, buying furs from trappers, producing movies about agriculture, providing scholarships to rural youth, promoting victory gardens, starting adult farmer short courses, establishing livestock chains, and the list goes on and on.
