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<title>Hometown Spotlight - American Profile</title>
<description>Hometown Spotlights focus on communities which are unique, take pride in and celebrate an aspect of American hometown life, be it their history, heritage, passion, claim to fame, or future.</description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rounding Up Rattlers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Felder and Dean Wilson climb among the hills west of Okeene, Okla. (pop. 1,240), searching cracks and crevices in the porous gypsum rock for the elusive Western diamondback rattlesnake.]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/26296.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strawberry Festival - Craft Bazaar plus Tours of Jefferson Depot Village]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Strawberry Festival at Jefferson Depot Village was started 21 years ago by hometown volunteers inorder to SAVE and Preserve the 1872 Lake Shore &amp; Michigan Southern Railroad Station.   Each ye]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/26306.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:06:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Western Swing Town]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The sweet sound of twin fiddles and a steel guitar drift over the pews at the Church of Western Swing in Turkey, Texas]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/26110.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hail the new Nightingales]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hail the new NightingalesAmar B Shrestha2768, Woodland CreekLoop, Kissimmee, Fl-34744Ph: 407-343-1328 Downtown Baptist Church in PineStreet, Orlando, was host to an unusual event on 7th December 2007]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/26083.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:52:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln Slept Here]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Shelbyville, Illinois, the county seat of Shelby County was a bustling pioneer town in the 1840&#39;s and 1850&#39;s.  It was on the route of the 8th Judicial Circuit, which was the route Abraham Lin]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/26080.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:13:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Isolated midwestern city needs thoughtful rehabilitation.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[  http://www.cityforsale.us/ Not really, but an unusual human-interest story worth considering. This isolated midwestern city had a population of 15,000. Today it is less than 7000. Passive local gov]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/26061.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:39:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Built on Furniture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Companies such as Swaim and Thayer Coggin help High Point retain its title as the Home Furnishings Capital of the World]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/25930.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Restoring and Preserving the DeTour Reef Light]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ona beautiful Sunday afternoon in August Milton &ldquo;Steve&rdquo; Lovett stepped onto theDeTour Reef Light for the first time in almost 48 years.  As a young man Steve served on the Light from1958-]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/25914.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Where Time Stands Still]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Renfro Valley resident John Lair built the 650-seat theater in 1939 and began broadcasting the Renfro Valley Barn Dance live each Saturday night]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/25735.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Frozen Good Time]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With coffin races, a polar plunge, costume party and frozen turkey bowling, Frozen Dead Guy Days is residents' weekend farewell to the area's harsh, snow-filled winter.]]></description>
<link>http://www.americanprofile.com/article/25659.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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