{"id":2926,"date":"2011-11-21T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2011-11-21T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:54:44","slug":"home-on-the-grange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/home-on-the-grange\/","title":{"rendered":"Home on the Grange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bilde.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2927\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"bilde\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bilde-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>By DIANE PETERSON, The Press Democrat |<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being a member of the oldest, continuously operating local Grange in the country can be a burden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last June, when a rainstorm swept through Santa Rosa during the Bennett Valley Grange&#8217;s annual barbecue, the farm organization faced a conundrum. Could they break a 138-year tradition?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve never missed a year &#8230; We&#8217;ve never canceled before,\u201d said Granger Karen Sommer. \u201cSo they put this tractor out and a big tarp over the barbecue and everything was held inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Grange organization was launched in the U.S. after the Civil War, when Oliver Hudson Kelley surveyed the rundown farms of the South and came back to Washington, D.C. proposing a \u201cfraternity\u201d for farmers. 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