How Electrical Coops are Bridging the Digital Divide: Tri-Co
Imagine living in a world where electricity was a luxury, available only to city dwellers. This was the reality for many Americans in the 1930s, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR,) who was living with polio, regularly visited Warm Springs, Georgia, which were thought to be beneficial for polio sufferers at the time. During his travels, FDR witnessed the stark contrast in electrical access between urban and rural communities.