CONTENTS Volume 73 | JUNE 2020 | Number 6 28 8 8 Business as unusual Co-ops keep the power flowing during the pandemic 10 Missouri Snapshots Photo Contest 2020 Missouri State Parks & Rural Missouri contest rules 19 Cultivating the future farm Unique ideas preserve farming tradition 42 IN EVERY ISSUE 4 Cooperation 5 Perspectives 14 Community 37 Recipes 42 Outdoors 48 Neighbors 50 Just4Kids 24 Entertaining, intriguing, little-known history Book reveals 200 years of Missouri's past 28 Big box of memories Photos tie a co-op to its community 46 A helping hand Quick thinking helps lineworker save a life ON THE COVER This image of Louise Eickhoff, who had just revceived electricity for the first time, is one of many memories uncovered when Crawford Electric moved to a new office. See story on page 28. JUNE 2020 | RURALMISSOURI.COOP 3http://www.RURALMISSOURI.COOP