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This is Love

Wimbledon in a Cornfield

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis while doing his chores. And one day, he got an idea. “I’m looking at this cattle feedlot when I realized, ‘This is just about the right size for a tennis court.’” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery ad-free. Plus, behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

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0:35.0

Please use discretion.

0:37.0

Tell me about your family growing up.

0:43.0

Did you have a lot of brothers and sisters?

0:44.4

Were your grandparents around?

0:46.0

Oh yes.

0:47.0

My grandfather and grandmother were.

0:50.0

They were the patriarchs of the family farm.

0:57.0

They came here from Germany, started out in South Dakota, dry land, wheat farmers.

1:03.0

Mark Kuhn's grandparents moved to Iowa and bought a farm there.

1:08.0

Mark's father grew up farming corn and soybeans,

1:11.0

and when Mark was old enough, began working on the farm too.

1:16.0

What was your relationship with your grandfather like?

1:20.0

Well he had by that time he had retired and lived up in Trau City and he was elderly and instead

1:28.0

of riding the school bus home, oftentimes I would go to his house and we would, it was very interesting to listen to him and we would throw his hats on the elks and the moose and whatever else was in the

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