Tim Gleason Creates Theme for Farm Show

A Conversation with the Freudenburg’s:  Neal and Eula Freudenburg play a farm couple in the movie 'NEBRASKA'. It wasn't a stretch, because they are in fact a farm couple. Todd Gleason called them at their home Monday morning and talked with them about their lives and the making of the movie. You may listen to the conversation. 

NEBRASKA a Movie Made with Real Farmers

- the Morrill Acts & HCBUs
- the Emancipation Proclamation
- General Order 143
- Reconstruction Wade-Davis Bill
- Surrender at Appomattox
- the 13th Amendment
- June 19, 1865, General Order #3

Jun 19 | Juneteenth Special Edition

A Visit from St. Nicholas

On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address. 

The Civil War had entered its third year and for three days more than ninety-thousand soldiers from the Army of the Potomac and about seventy-five-thousand troops from the Army of Northern Virginia had fought at a crossroads in Pennsylvania’s fruit growing hill country. 

The clash between the Union and Confederate soldiers in the market town of Gettysburg stands as the largest land battle ever fought in the western hemisphere. On this day in history, President Lincoln came to the site to consecrate a cemetery in their honor. The brief Gettysburg Address marked a defining moment in the Civil War. University of Illinois’ Todd Gleason reads the address.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
 
 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
 
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The Gettysburg Address | read by Todd E. Gleason

Turkey Facts (self contained for Thanksgiving Day)

Time through the ages has been adapted for many purposes. The Romans were known to change the calendar to keep a politician in office longer. Some calendars work off moon cycles, others don’t. Todd Gleason files this report on the Gregorian calendar and how it is used to tell time.

What Time is It

MLK Day is a federal holiday. It celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr., an influential American civil rights leader.

This is a self-contained audio file meant for use on MLK Day, the third Monday of January, in the United States.

MLK Day | A Chronology of Martin Luther King's Life

Todd Gleason is a farm broadcaster located on the Urbana Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. He works for University of Illinois Extension and with Illinois Public Media. 

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