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Jim Irwin (far right) with American Pickers hosts Frank Fritz (left), Robbie Wolfe, and Mike Wolfe at the Irwins' farm.

American Pickers TV show features Redbird’s Michigan farm One person’s rusted old bicycle is another’s treasured antique. Illinois State Redbird Tom Irwin discovered that last summer when he and his twin brother, Jim, invited the crew from American Pickers to rummage around their family’s 183-year-old farm in Michigan.

Volunteer Paulina Wietocha has been sewing for years; her grandmother was a seamstress in Poland.

Office of Sustainability speaks for the trees—figurativelyThe Lorax would have been preaching to the choir at Illinois State University. The hero of Dr. Suess’ eponymously titled children’s fable, who “speaks for the trees” and who fought in vain to stop the Once-ler’s destruction of his beloved Truffulas, may have even found a new home in the Fell [...]

Making it work—Bill KoosServing as a grounds foreman at Illinois State, Bill Koos sat down to talk about snow removal, teamwork, global landscape design, and the beauty of a first impression.

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