This story confirms our appreciation of living in a small town like Seward, NE (Pop 7,000) where people know many of their neighbors. We have been saving information on Hugh H. Bennett for many years since he is considered the Founder of the USDA Soil Conservation Service. The agency with which I spent my career and followed by our son Jon who is still working. The agency name was changed to the Natural Resources Conservation Service some years ago to better reflect an expanded mission. Jon has been involved for some time in collecting information on Bennett for an anticipated Memorial at the UN-L Innovative Campus. He was here last week and helped with the cleaning out of our house in preparation for putting it up for sale since we have moved to Brookdale. He boxed up considerable information and sent it to his home in Fairfax, VA. This morning we received in our mail this copy of a 1995 Conservation Journal and and another 14 page paper on Bennett from the Seward Post Office. I talked to Jon this evening and learned that some of his boxes have already arrived in Virginia. He had no recollection of these items specifically but knew they were among the things he had boxed and mailed. The items sent to us are in excellent condition and don't appear to have gone through any box damage. There was no note with them in the envelope so it's a mystery of what happened. I will be downtown tomorrow morning and will stop at the Post Office to see what I can learn. We are certainly grateful to them for returning the stuff to us.
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