These Ranney letters remind me of my mother. She wrote a weekly article for the Chenango American newspaper (in Greene, NY). We lived on a dirt road in a rural farm area where houses were about a mile apart. After we finally got electricity (thanks Lyndon Johnson!) and then a party line phone, she would call the neighbors and collect their "news" (gossip), write it up, and mail it to the newspaper for publishing the following week. This she did with a partial 7-th grade education. I tried to see if I could find any of her articles online, but found none. [About The Chenango American. [volume] (Greene, N.Y.) 1855-1960](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83031218/)
These Ranney letters remind me of my mother. She wrote a weekly article for the Chenango American newspaper (in Greene, NY). We lived on a dirt road in a rural farm area where houses were about a mile apart. After we finally got electricity (thanks Lyndon Johnson!) and then a party line phone, she would call the neighbors and collect their "news" (gossip), write it up, and mail it to the newspaper for publishing the following week. This she did with a partial 7-th grade education. I tried to see if I could find any of her articles online, but found none. [About The Chenango American. [volume] (Greene, N.Y.) 1855-1960](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83031218/)