An interview with Jim Kinsella / Jim Kinsella ; Michael Maniscalco, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview with Jim Kinsella / Jim Kinsella ; Michael Maniscalco, interviewer. 2008.

An interview of Jim Kinsella conducted by Michael Maniscalco for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Illinois State Museum. Topics discussed include no-till farming; growing up on a family farm; family history; government policies toward no till farming; Air Force reserves; and BASF.

3 data discs (125 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7490186

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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Maniscalco, Michael

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Illinois State Museum

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Kinsella, Jim.

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Born on Sept. 10, 1940 in Lexington, IL and grew up on the family farm. His great grandparents came to the United States in the mid 1800s to escape the potato famine in Ireland, and eventually bought land near Lexington. Jim's uncles all farmed in the same area on or near the original homestead, with the next generation continuing in farming. Kinsella attended Southern Illinois University, majoring in Soil Science, then went to work for a corporation in Chicago. After some time he moved back hom...

United States. Air Force Reserve

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