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...Kansas, though, that land giveaways are sprouting faster than wheat. The state has at least 11 locally run programs and is the most organized, with a website kansasfreeland.com that spells out details. Others are playing catch-up. In Whiting, Iowa, ground has been set aside while a decision is awaited about whether to charge people who take land for utilities. "There will be new houses on that land no matter what," promises Mayor Nancy Brenden. In Chugwater--aptly named, considering its place on the long, dry Oregon Trail traveled by early settlers--the first taker has just signed...
...walls of what used to be a bank on the main strip. Paradise was never big. But it bustled. Now its storefronts are shuttered, and the only action other than the, yes, tumbleweeds that roll through town is at the grain elevator, where the occasional farmer weighs and deposits wheat. Lucille Shearer, 58, who went to school here, works alone in the post office. Ask her how many folks live in Paradise, and she starts counting from a two-page phone book. "These days, about 50," she replies...
...users of public fields and rice paddies to turn over an agreed-upon production quota to the authorities and allowing those farmers to keep anything that exceeded it. According to a recent article in the Chinese journal Modern History Studies, Deng himself joined an army team in tending a wheat field...
...Johnson volunteered that the wind recently removed two railroad engines from a nearby track. Loretta Johnson said it once blew her from the yard outside the farmhouse to the crest of a distant hill before she could get some purchase. Their father, Mack Johnson, who had been hauling wheat, said it was nothing compared with some of the blows the family had been through. At that point, the visitor resolved that if anybody in the house answered to the name Dorothy or owned a dog called Toto, he would not stick around...
...elements soon passed, however, as talk in the cheerful kitchen turned on family reminiscences. The Johnsons moved from the Texas Panhandle to this not dissimilar ground in 1948. Until then, Mack had held a lot of jobs to cobble together his grubstake. He moved to Wild Horse to raise wheat and rear five children. He and his wife were headed toward divorce. One son would grow up to farm on his own: the other would throw in with his dad. The three daughters would chart a course that would keep them close by yet broaden them through association with singers...