"Well, we went to church out northwest of town. A little church of Shiloh. I remember going, and they had bulldozers pushing [the snow]. Higher than cars, you know, you go through just a tunnel…
"When I was a boy, the neighbor south of us fed cattle, and they hired young men to scoop a path for the cattle to drive to Benedict to load on the train. They used scoop shovels, all the young men around the community to scoop snow… Mainly those cattle went to Chicago, and they thought they had a good market, you know, stormwise. That's why they did that."
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Winton Wright was born in 1926 on a farm near Benedict, Nebraska. During World War II, he had a farm worker deferment, but in the Korean War he was drafted and became a medic in Germany. In between, he married Maxine McLain and worked at an implement dealer until he had enough money to buy some land. He has been a farmer ever since, even though his five sons are now running the operation. Winton's family has been involved in the co-op movement since Benedict built the first farmer-owned elevator in Nebraska in 1902. He's served on the boards of the local and regional co-op organizations and the Perennial Public Power District.
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