[Themaintainers] maintaining groceries

[Jonathan Coopersmith]

An interesting piece: how do small towns maintain a supply of fresh fruit
and veg?  Their issues -- market failure, the need for local
self-organization and the challenge of maintaining that long-term --
resonate with Maintainer concerns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/rural-farm-market.html


Jonathan Coopersmith
Professor
Department of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4236
979.739.4708 (cell)
979.862.4314 (fax)

Most recent oped:
https://theconversation.com/can-sun-umbrellas-ever-become-fashionable-again-in-america-121860

Apollo thoughts:
https://today.tamu.edu/2019/07/19/would-apollo-11-have-happened-without-russia/

*FAXED.  The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University
Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley
Prize for best book in business history.
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