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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Publisher’s Note: Why I Carve Spoons 

by Jon Andelson

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EDITOR'S NOTE
Associate Editor’s Note 

by Emily Mamrak

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EDITOR'S NOTE
Editor’s Note: The Butterfly Effect 

by Mark Baechtel

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ESSAY
Peaches, Meet Corn 

by Mariah Manoylov

In this essay, a Georgia-based writer shares her introduction to the prairie's wild beauty.
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PERSONAL ESSAY
Healing the Smallest Casualty 

by Randall Hotchkin

It's a long way from Iraq's battlefields to running a small town barbershop. But because of a little boy's smile, maybe not so far at that.
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MULTIMEDIA ESSAY
Along the Way 

by Shiraz Johnson

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PERSONAL ESSAY
Harvesting Wheat in the 1940s 

by Beryl Clotfelter

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ESSAY
Murder at A Midwest School 

by Jason Ross