ZENA, Okla. — From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly cattle pastures.
Electricity came late here but transformed life on the farm. It provided bright light to study by and freed families from the tedium of washing clothes by hand and cutting wood for the cook stove.
Image: Clinton Creason beneath the fiber line that delivers high-speed internet to his home in Zena, Okla. Credit Nick Oxford for The New York Times
