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More than once while I was listening to Paul Horel's stories about farm life in Iowa, I felt like I was at a family reunion. With his glasses and balding…
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Amy Konishi says when her obituary is written it’ll read, “All she knew was work.”It’ll be a fitting tribute given the 87-year-old’s work ethic. As a…
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Kelly Hagler, 25, is among the millions of young people who have left rural communities for the bright lights of the city, in this case Chicago.But her…
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Jackie Dougan Jackson keeps a pretty thorough log of her life.The 85-year-old retired college professor lives in Springfield, IL, and has lived there for…
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The farm roots for Monica Johnson, 36, are in Moundville, Mo., a 124-person town near the Missouri-Kansas border. Although she grew up in Missouri’s…
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Mark Kenney and his family lived through the farm crisis of the 1980s, when the bottom dropped out of the U.S. economy and collapsing global food markets…