The Grange opens its doors

By Eileen Kennedy | Wicked Local

The Bedford Grange is an institution whose past is rooted in the soil, much as the town was when the Grange organization was created in the 1860s.

The national organization is known as the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and is based in Washington, D.C.

Both the town and the organization have fewer ties to farming these days, but the Bedford Grange remains a family-oriented group, and it is throwing its doors open on Monday, March 25, in the hopes of showing others that the group has a lot to offer people.

For Corey Spence, who has been part of the Bedford Grange for decades, the group gave him something few other organizations offered: the chance to be treated as an adult who could be trusted to get things done.

“I became the Bedford Grange’s secretary when I was 16 or 17, and I don’t know too many other organizations that would let a teenager do that, and treat him as an adult member,” he said.