Our Changing Gears team has been on the road this week traveling to some of our company towns in the Midwest.
Changing Gears is a Michigan Radio project looking at the economic transformation of the industrial Midwest.
Our final stop is Orrville, Ohio: A place that seems like a company town, but there’s long been a whole lot more going on in Orrville.
If you know anything about Orrville, it’s probably from those ubiquitous Smucker’s ads on TV. Two young Smucker brothers are portrayed in an idyllic, rural Orrville of yesteryear.