“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
Bill Vaughan
Tag: Grange Membership
Grange Heirloom Program Kicks Off
Resources for Granges
produced by the
Maine State Grange Communications Department
Warning! This is a long video! You may decide to watch it in stages or steps but you will definitely want to watch it. This is a truly amazing program that will end up spanning a five-year period and it’s been over 150 years in the making.
Important additional resources for you:
- A Resource Page on the MSG Website This is an “easy peasy” page that will get you started discovering and using the Heirlooms.
- The Entire Program with all it’s parts This may admittedly take some effort, here you’ll find all of the pieces of the program that have been created so far! This is maintained by National Grange.
Check out:
- More Resources for Granges — Program Information and Inspiration
- Program Books and Information –Information arranged by committee and topic.
Is It Time for a Re-run?
Are you old enough to remember when television programming involved sometimes dreaded and sometimes eagerly anticipated summer re-runs? What we call “media” was certainly different.
In completing some recent research, I happened to look at a program Amanda Brozana Rio and I did together on April 18, 2020. While it was centered on the book I wrote about the Grange Way of Life, we spent considerable time on the challenge of maintaining the Grange Way of Life during the pandemic.
Whether or not things have changed much since this interview is perhaps debatable, but that’s not the intent of reposting it. The Grange Way of Life doesn’t change much fundamentally, even if how we live and practice it does. Therefore, it seems worth reposting this for consideration. Don’t miss the part about caterpillars and butterflies.
A Retrospective…
Please spend a couple of minutes enjoying this reminder that Granges in Maine are making a difference!