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    42. Before the big yellow bus: remembering the one-room schools of Richland County, Illinois

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Scherer, Ron E. (author) and Meckfessel, Yvonne Scherer (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2015
    Published:
    USA: Persimmon Grove Publishing, Claremont, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06237
    Notes:
    295 pages., Reports the history of 80-plus one-room schools in a southeastern Illinois county, including an examination of an education system that helped both slow and bright students. Identifies teachers at those rural schools and some of the "pupils who learned their lessons well." Traces the demographic shift from farm to city in Richland County.

    46. Biotechnology: science and society at a crossroad

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Eaglesham, Allan (author), Ristow, Sandra (author), and Hardy, Ralph W.F. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    USA: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Ithaca, New York.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05927
    Notes:
    NABC Report 15. From the annual meeting of the Council in Seattle, Washington, June 1-5, 2003. 292 pages.

    48. Building communities through food: strengthening communications, families, and social capital

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Purnell, David F. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    USA: Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D11095
    Notes:
    137 pages., Examines the power of food as a communicative tool to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. Author argues that food enables people to look past their differences and focus on their similarities, thus creating a stronger sense of community via the sharing of a meal.