As a follow-up to Ed Swan's wonderful note, I'd like to share this
story.   A few years ago I interviewed a man from Pittsylvania County.
He talked about the 1930s when the area was first wired for
electricity.  He asked me, a modern city-dweller, what was the first
appliance the country people bought when they got electricity?  A radio,
I said.  No.
A refrigerator?  No.  The correct answer--a butter churn.
Henry Wiencek

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