"If life hands you lemons," the old saying goes, "make lemonade."
Easier said than done, right? National unemployment is still over 8 percent, small businesses are still having problems getting loans, wildfires are occuring in the West and drought conditions seemingly everywhere else threaten to spike food prices and insured losses.
But then there's this story out of Grafton, Ill.—an old river town near St. Louis with a population of 700 whose best times seem to be behind it. Yet little Grafton has managed to mash up the unlikely elements of an invasive fish species and the wealth of foreign investors into what could be some sweet lemonade.
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