In Trying Times, a Kansas Community Faced Down its Fear of Outsiders - The Wall Street Journal

Oct 23, 2021

GRINNELL, Kansas—A few weeks into the Covid-19 lockdown, a van with Colorado plates pulled up to the Hometown Grocery & Cafe in Grinnell, a town of 269 people in a county of 2,600.

Through the shop window, owner Gwen Wolf could see toilet paper stacked high in the woman’s van.

Wolf’s regulars lived on farms far from the nearest town, and she didn’t like the idea of strangers depriving them of necessities.