Reporter John Gregory sends an audio postcard from southwestern Illinois, where he’s visiting Emma Buck. The 95-year-old Miss Buck reminisces about her family’s connection to a particular 70 acres of farmland, tended by Bucks since Civil War times. She also worries what will happen to the land when she is gone.
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