It’s always nice to see the fruits of your labor.

I did a corporate shoot for a trade magazine called Plant Engineering back in the fall. The magazine, based near Chicago, named NACCO Materials Handling Group the top energy maintenance company in the nation. NACCO which is in Berea, employs over 700 people, making a variety of forklifts.

It was a nice surprise when I found the magazine with my cover shot buried in my daughter’s backpack. Turns out that one of the plant manager’s wife works at Laura’s school, and her husband sent it to me. He and his wife were originally from Owsley County, so we had a lot of mutual friends and 56th District stories to share.

I think those of us who live in Madison County take for granted, and don’t always understand, the number of good manufacturing companies that are located here.