Modern Bells Don’t Ring the Same (I know because I broke the old ones)

As I write this in my home-office, I am 76-years old and have lived in much larger Iowa towns since leaving Lawler, Iowa (population 500) as a 19-year-old: Mason City, Cedar Falls, Fort Dodge, and now Johnston—a suburb of the state capital, Des Moines. One summer day about 12 years ago, working for the Principal Financial Group, I was enjoying l...