Irrigation

For as common as it sounds, I have a fairly rare surname: there are only 717 Grandons in the U.S.

Still, I can Google myself and find some interesting connections. For instance, there was a Grandon Hotel built in Helena, Montana in 1885. It was destroyed by fire in 1968.

When currency was scarce in the west, many businesses came up with their own coinage. Today there's a group that collects these old tokens, they have annual conventions and everything.

This photo is from an Idaho collector's catalog. I'd love to get my hands on my own Grandon Hotel token, but he didn't have any extras to sell, but for now I could use his picture.