At the Grange Rally held earlier this spring, the State Master separated the attendees into seven or more groups.  Each group was responsible for crafting their own elevator speech for the Grange.

After each group presented its speech, everyone voted for their favorite.  The most popular speech was published in the first installment, and can be found by accessing this link: http://www.ctstategrange.org/showarticle.asp?ID=2473.  We will be publishing all of the other speeches, one by one.

While you may want to make it sound more like something you would say, we should all have a speech like this at the ready whenever someone asks, “What IS the Grange?”

This was the elevator speech written by Group 1:

"The Grange was founded as an agricultural family fraternity.  We have never lost our focus and continue in legislative endeavors , our community, and family involvement."