Interview With A Milkman -1996- (2026)

“Want to hear something sad?” he asks.

Now, Ronnie partners with a small independent dairy two counties over. He buys their milk wholesale, bottles it in glass himself at a co-op facility, and slaps on his own label. “Technically, I’m a reseller. But spiritually? I’m still a milkman.” interview With A milkman -1996-

It is 4:47 AM on a humid Tuesday in August. The sky over the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, is the color of a bruise. While the rest of the city is lost in REM sleep, Ronald "Ronnie" Pell is guiding a 1992 Ford F-350 box truck down a cul-de-sac. The truck says "Pell’s Dairy & Goods" in faded blue script. “Want to hear something sad

“She’s a producer at the local news station,” he says as we pull away. “She told me she’s doing a story on ‘vanishing professions.’ She interviewed a lamplighter last month. The week before, a shoe cobbler. Next week, me.” “Technically, I’m a reseller

I nod.