“The Altona Grange building out there north of town, seemed to stand for that whole experience of farming, farming within a community. Community: that’s the key word. These pioneers of Boulder County joined forces to survive and prevail, out here in the Boulder valley, not just for the economic success of their individual farms, but to establish a genuine and deeply human society and culture. They had ready to their hand the model of the typical lodge or fraternal order, so prevalent in the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. It was a way, an organization, of belongingness, in a common cause, cultural, economic, social, and spiritual.”
Read the entire essay at the Bouldercreek Angler: Discovering the Altona Grange-In the Nick of Time for Christmas.
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