The news story:
Corn Bin Collapses, Burying Iowa Family
Iowa Grain Bin Collapse Floods Home With Tons of Corn and Traps Family of 4
The Associated Press
By MELANIE S. WELTE Associated Press Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa Nov 20, 2007 (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3894991A grain bin collapsed and sent a tidal wave of corn into a home, sweeping it off its
foundation, trapping a family of four and shaking the ground for miles.
One man was taken to a hospital after being buried for hours in grain and debris in
Hillsboro in southeast Iowa.
The bin about 100 feet in diameter, 90 feet high and containing more than
500,000 bushels of corn collapsed Monday evening. The force of the grain broke
the walls of Jesse and Jennifer Kellett's home and sent the roof crashing down.
"The force actually took the house with the corn and shoved it and crushed it,"
Dan Wesely, Henry County chief sheriff's deputy, said Tuesday.
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The story:
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised
Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back
A Rootabaga Story
by Carl Sandburg
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/texts/sandburg/root/huck.htmlThen she ran with it to her mother and said, "Look what I found when I cut open the yellow
squash spotted with spots of gold--it is a Chinese silver slipper buckle."
"It means our luck is going to change, and we don't know whether it will be good luck or bad luck,"
said Mama Mama Huckabuck. And that night a fire started in the barns, cribs, sheds, shacks, cracks,
and corners where the popcorn harvest was kept. All night long the popcorn popped. In the morning
the ground, all the farmhouse and the barn were covered with white popcorn, so it looked like a
heavy fall of snow.
All the next day the fire kept on and the popcorn popped till it was up to the shoulders of Pony Pony
when she tried to walk from the house to the barn. And that night in all the barns, cribs, sheds,
shacks, cracks, and corners of the farm, the popcorn went on popping.
In the morning when Jonas Jonas Huckabuck looked out of the upstairs window he saw the popcorn popping
and coming higher and higher. It was nearly up to the window. Before evening and dark of that day,
Jonas Jonas Huckabuck, and his wife Mama Mama Huckabuck, and their daughter Pony Pony Huckabuck,
all went away from the farm saying, "We came to Nebraska to raise popcorn but this is too much.
We will not come back till the wind blows away the popcorn.
We will not come back till we get a sign and a signal."