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3:57 pm
Fri July 20, 2012

Blue Highways Revisited: Photographer Ed Ailor captures the places and people off the beaten track

Credit Edgar Ailor III / Iniversity of Missouri Press
The book "Blue Highways Revisited" retraces the path of the original best-selling book.
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The call of the open road has long beckoned Americans … and in 1978, William Least Heat-Moon answered the call and embarked on a drive around the country, taking the roads less travelled. Starting in Columbia, he followed a circular route that totaled nearly 14,000 miles. The result was Blue Highways, a New York Times Bestselling book.

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Agriculture
3:39 pm
Fri July 20, 2012

My Farm Roots: When you hail from farm country, roots run deep

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Credit Andrea Silenzi / Harvest Public Media
Kate Edwards grew up helping her grandfather on his farm. Those memories are part of what spurred her to start her own farm.
Credit Andrea Silenzi / Harvest Public media
Edwards walks through rows of planted vegetables. Her CSA program feeds about 30 families.
Credit Andrea Silenzi / Harvest Public Media
Edwards shows off her small 1-acre vegetable plot near Solon, Iowa.
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By Jeremy Bernfeld

This is the first installment of My Farm Roots, Harvest Public Media’s new series chronicling Americans’ connection to the land.

Kate Edwards hasn’t always been a farmer. No, she came back to the farm after college, grad school and a stint as an environmental engineer.

Now, she farms a small one-acre plot near Solon, Iowa. On her small farm, she feeds 30 families through a Community Supported Agriculture project, a CSA. Edwards was drawn back to farming, she says, because of family memories.

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Off The Clock
12:55 pm
Fri July 13, 2012

Staying or going: 'My Life, My Town' in Glasgow

Credit Lizz Cardwell / KBIA/Columbia Missourian
Madelyne and Landon Brand, from Glasgow, Mo: Only time will tell whether they stay in the town they love, or make a life in a new place.
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By and Lizz Cardwell

A high school senior, Madelyne cheerleads, serves as the Glasgow FFA President, and participates in Band and Choir. On the weekends, she works at the local bank. She cannot wait to leave the small-town life and the farm.

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Arts and Culture
5:33 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Out in a small town: 'My Life, My Town' goes to Macon

Credit Elizabeth Trovall/Grant Hindsley / KBIA/Columbia Missourian
Trinity Rainey, a teen from Macon, MO. is profiled in the "My Life, My Town" series of multimedia portraits featuring teens in rural Missouri.
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On this week's edition of "Off the Clock," we hear a third portrait from the “My Life, My Town” series that documents the stories of teens in rural Missouri. Today  we visit Trinity Rainey in Macon.

KBIA and the Columbia Missourian have been working with rural teens all over Missouri to get their stories about … being a teen, in rural Missouri. Called “My Life My Town,” the project worked with teens to create multimedia portraits about their lives. Over the last few weeks, we’ve heard the audio versions of these portraits on “Off the Clock."

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