Logan • A school secretary in the tiny Kansas town of Lost Springs, population 70, was surprised to see an old man stop by unannounced one day. He introduced himself as Warren Pugh and asked if they had any chess sets.
“He just happened to be driving by, and he saw that there was a school, so he dropped in to talk to us,” Terri Bina said.
Bina, who works at the pre-K-12 Centre School, said Pugh provided her with articles and statistics on the benefits of chess. He was out of chess sets by the time he made it to Lost Springs, but about a month later, Bina said, some vinyl boards showed up in the mail.