From a chair to a computer

By Pam Boyd

EDWARDS — Social networking looked a lot different when Jeanine Ding Kastner was growing up and her mother, Thelma Ding, was the owner and operator of the Edwards Store and Post Office.For one thing, when people wanted to “network” they called it visiting and they didn’t need a cell phone or a computer. All they needed was a chair.“We had a chair between the cash register and the post office,” said Kastner. “That chair was a large source of communication between the community. People would catch up on the gossip and the local news through that chair. One day I …

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