After Getting Us Out of the Mud, Harmony Grange Trudges Along

By Bill Bittar | Monroe Patch

Drivers on Shelton Road often pass by an old white building at the corner of Route 111. The sign in front identifies it as the Harmony Grange, but people sometimes mistake it for a church.

“So many people drive past this twice a day and don’t really know what it is and why it existed,” says Ron Bunovsky, vice president of Harmony Grange No. 92, Patrons of Husbandry, serving Monroe, Shelton and Trumbull.

In fact, if not for the Harmony Grange, cars and trucks may be slogging through a pig trail rather than zipping along a state highway.

A Harmony Grange is a farming organization that actively promotes legislation at the state and local levels.

“The grange lobbied at the state level to improve the roads around 1933,” said George Ward of Huntington, president of Harmony Grange No. 92.