{"id":26359,"date":"2025-04-22T00:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26359"},"modified":"2025-04-22T00:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T00:24:28","slug":"a-funeral-director-brought-wind-power-to-rock-port-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26359","title":{"rendered":"A Funeral Director Brought Wind Power to Rock Port, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Chamberlain was at work, driving a hearse, when he first caught sight of the wind turbine that would set him on a path to change the fortunes of his hometown.<\/p>\n

It was the mid-2000s, and Mr. Chamberlain was leading a funeral procession in Iowa, across the border from his home in Atchison County in northwest Missouri, when giant white blades came into view. Mr. Chamberlain had heard of wind energy but not seen a commercial turbine before. He was intrigued, but obviously couldn\u2019t pull over to take a closer look.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t stop,\u201d said Mr. Chamberlain, whose family has operated Chamberlain Funeral Homes and Monuments since 1968. \u201cI was polite.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eric Chamberlain, a funeral director, grew up in Atchison, one of Missouri\u2019s most rural counties.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After the funeral, he visited a local newspaper in Iowa to ask people there about the wind energy project.<\/p>\n

Mr. Chamberlain, 70, grew up in Atchison, one of Missouri\u2019s most rural counties, and over the years watched as waning opportunities and population decline steadily ate away at the place. Young people didn\u2019t come back after college. School enrollment fell. Farms got bigger, and fewer farmers meant less tax revenue. Businesses on Main Street closed and the area went from having two grocery stores to one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eric Chamberlain was at work, driving a hearse, when he first caught sight of the wind turbine that would set him on a path to change the fortunes of his hometown.It was the mid-2000s, and Mr. Chamberlain was leading a funeral procession in Iowa, across the border from his home in Atchison County in northwest Missouri, when giant white blades came into view. Mr. Chamberlain had heard of wind energy but not seen a commercial turbine before. He was intrigued, but obviously couldn\u2019t pull over to take a closer look.\u201cI didn\u2019t stop,\u201d said Mr. Chamberlain, whose family has operated Chamberlain Funeral Homes and Monuments since 1968. \u201cI was polite.\u201dEric Chamberlain, a funeral director, grew up in Atchison, one of Missouri\u2019s most rural counties.After the funeral, he visited a local newspaper in Iowa to ask people there about the wind energy project.Mr. Chamberlain, 70, grew up in Atchison, one of Missouri\u2019s most rural counties, and over the years watched as waning opportunities and population decline steadily ate away at the place. Young people didn\u2019t come back after college. School enrollment fell. Farms got bigger, and fewer farmers meant less tax revenue. Businesses on Main Street closed and the area went from having two grocery stores to one.Tell Us About Solutions Where You Live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26361,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26362,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359\/revisions\/26362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}