What could explain the tumbleweeds rolling through the corridors of my wife’s usually bustling pediatric practice for one week each May? It’s entrepreneurial spirit.
Few things motivate the local kids to suppress their usual sniffles and complaints like the annual fair, when their longtime 4-H and FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America) projects come to fruition. All that time, sweat, and energy expended by them (and, too often, their suffering parents) in raising rabbits, lambs, goats, poultry, and steers find their reward at the livestock auction, from which the kids depart with hard cash and the buyers end up with freezers full of meat. It’s a demonstration not just of animal husbandry but of an entrepreneurial spirit that’s at odds with the Hillbilly Elegy–esque dysfunction we’re told to expect of locales outside city limits, writes J.D. Tuccille in the latest issue of Reason.
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