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Christopher McLean


From REA to RUS-75 Years of Lighting the Way for Rural America

May 06, 2010

By Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator-USDA Rural Utilities Service If you lived in a rural area 75 years ago, you probably didn’t have electricity. Water for livestock, cooking, cleaning and bathing had to be hand pumped from a well. Farmers risked milk spoilage in the summer, and people often got...

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