Our Evergreen company, Venture Products, has manufactured tractors and attachments in Orville, Ohio since 1998. But my family has had a much longer history in making tractors and other equipment from metal.

In 1922, my grandparents, John R. and Eliza Steiner, sponsored a Russian refugee, Henry Penner, to travel to Ohio from what is now southern Ukraine. They provided him with employment and housing so that he could become an American citizen.