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Tell me about your family growing up.

Did you have a lot of brothers and sisters?

Were your grandparents around?

Oh, yes. My grandfather and grandmother were. They were the patriarchs, matriarchs of the family farm.

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

Mark Kewan's grandparents moved to Iowa and bought a farm there. Mark's father grew up farming corn and soybeans, and when Mark was old enough, he began working on the farm too.

What was your relationship with your grandfather like?

Well, he had, by that time, he had retired and lived up in Charlest City, and he was elderly.

And instead of riding the school bus home, oftentimes I would go to his house, and we would,

it was very interesting to listen to him 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, the antelope that he had mounted on the house.

And we, he also had a shortwave radio.

And that's where we discovered the world he would tune in faraway places

and the machine would come in and out kind of fade in and out it wasn't like you're listening to

a real broadcast constantly but we could pick up lots of things like ships at sea and just

interesting things.

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