A Harvest of Thanks Echoes Through Rural America

For kids who know nothing about agriculture, stepping foot into the Children's Discovery Museum in Normal, Ill., might be their one chance to walk in a farmer’s shoes.

An Indiana museum provides a hands-on celebration of the region’s key industry and its contribution to America’s agricultural expansion.

In 1960, the Minneapolis Lakers were traveling back from St. Louis on their team plane. The plane lost electrical power, and the pilots had to make an emergency landing in the middle of a corn field in Carroll, Iowa.

Through embryo transfer, researchers worked with the Smithsonian to preserve the past while also growing a new future for the Arapawa goat breed.