Tyrades!

In 2007 the farmers cooperative for which I work relocated its maintenance shop from the back lot to a building with actual road frontage.

As editor of the company newsletter, I couldn’t resist reporting the change with the headline “We’re movin’ on up.”

I was confident that People of a Certain Age (or People with a Reliable Source of Reruns) would “get” the playful reference.

That’s my roundabout way of saying that January 18 marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the legendary Norman Lear sitcom “The Jeffersons,” starring Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford.

Yes, it has been half a cen...