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Step back to rural times at Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm
Visitors can experience life before electricity
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Jackson Electric Membership Corp. workers installed electric lines to provide farmers with an unpaid hired hand.
Most people today cannot remember a time when they couldn’t flip a switch on the wall for light. On Saturday, Jackson Electric Membership Corporation in cooperation with the Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm will take the public back in time to experience a world without electricity. “Before There Was Light,” a re-enactment of life on rural Georgia farms before cooperatives were formed to provide electricity, will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm, off U.S. 129 Bypass on Ethridge Road outside Jefferson.