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Brilliant,Quirky, and Uplifting Things That Could Only Happen Here PHOTOGRAPHS by MILLER MOBLEY 2570 | 07•2014 | Rd.Com Rd.Com | 07•2014 | 71 ONLY in AMERICA…  COVER STORY 11 5 2 21 12 16 10 Brilliant,Quirky, and Uplifting Things That Could Only Happen Here PHOTOGRAPHS BY MILLER MOBLEY 2570 | 07•2014 | rd.com rd.com | 07•2014 | 71 ONLY IN AMERICA… she answered the phone at her house- cleaning service. The woman on the other end asked for a price. When Sardone gave her the quote, the … do tractors woman responded, 1 square-dance “I can’t afford that ROCHESTER, INDIANA now. I’m going through Swinging your partner round and chemotherapy and ra- round gets a tad unwieldy when diation,” and promptly you’re both on four big wheels, but hung up. Sardone, who trust us—it’s just as much fun. This didn’t have caller ID, Midwestern pastime dates back to chastised herself: Why the 1950s, when farm-equipment didn’t I offer to clean manufacturer International Harvester for free? Later that day, featured an ad with whirling tractors. she gathered her office Here’s what they do: Drivers maneuver staff and instructed tractors to execute precision prom- them to perform ser- enades, circles, and weaves, all set vices without charge to rollicking square dance music for women with cancer. and directed by a caller. Indiana’s Lily Three years later, Pearl tractor dancers, for instance, Sardone formed the perform as a team of eight, but in national nonprofit the true spirit of competition, they’re Cleaning for a Reason, which … is a scientist also an artist of the night sky aiming to leave that feat in the dust. now boasts 1,085 member 3 CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA “We plan to dance with 16 tractors on businesses in all 50 states Professor Tyler Nordgren’s love affair with the evening sky began when the same field,” says farmer Skeeter (and Canada); together, he was a Boy Scout on camping trips in Oregon and Alaska. “Once we Daugherty, Lily Pearl’s leader. “It’s they’ve donated more than were on a lake at night, and I saw millions of stars above me. That has never been done before.” 15,000 house cleanings. stayed with me my whole life,” he says. Nordgren, 44, who teaches physics and astronomy at the University of Redlands in California, has gone to One partner describes 12 national parks to photograph the sky at twilight and after dark. His … can cancer the work as “vitamins mission is to raise awareness of the beauty of their night skies (many people 2 patients get help for the soul.” “I never visit only during the daytime) and the threat that light pollution poses. with housekeeping knew how good it California’s Lassen Volcanic Natural Park is shown above, and Maine’s DALLAS, TEXAS would feel to give Acadia National Park and Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park are two other Debbie Sardone (pictured on previ- away for free what favorites of Nordgren’s. “When you look up and see a billion stars, you ous page), 55, remembers every I do for a living,” know that you’re part of a larger universe,” he says. second of the call. Eleven years ago, says Sardone. TYLER NORDGREN COURTESY 72 | 07•2014 | rd.com ILLUSTRATIONS BY ZOE MORE O’FERRALL rd.com | 07•2014 | 73 ONLY IN AMERICA… READER’S DIGEST … do you its plucky sound instantly … does the to power in his invocations. On the 4 find trees dispels gloom. The craze 7 Senate chaplain shutdown’s third day, he prayed, older than has been stoked by a scold Congress “Save us from the madness … the pyramids new group of young WASHINGTON, DC Deliver us from the hypocrisy INYO COUNTY, Hawaiian virtuosos, like Jake Barry C. Black is privy to a of attempting to sound reason- CALIFORNIA Shimabukuro and Taimane rare sight: Democrats and able while being unreasonable.” If America’s longest-living Gardner, as well as amateurs Republicans holding hands. That’s On day 11, he asked God to “give residents could talk, on YouTube, like Nicole Tan what the senators do at the end our lawmakers the wisdom to dis- they’d probably just (pictured on page 70), 19, a of the weekly Prayer Breakfast he tinguish between truth and error.” grumble about the weather. In eastern Bowdoin College student who posts leads. Although Black has held his Black has called his role “descrip- California’s White Mountains, bristle- covers of hit songs like Nicki Minaj’s post of Senate chaplain for 11 years, tive rather than prescriptive,” but cone pine trees have survived for “Superbass.” “I went to the Internet, he drew national attention during he says that during the shutdown, millennia, despite the region’s scarce searched ‘how to play ukulele,’ and last fall’s government shutdown. The “I was making sure that my prayers rainfall, bruising winds, and frequent a video came up,” she says. “Five Washington Post dubbed him “a folk were not so otherworldly that they freezes. In 2012, scientists dated one minutes later, I could play it.” hero to many” after he spoke truth had no earthly good.” Amen to that. of the trees at 5,063 years old, making it the world’s longest-living organism. The pines’ wood hardens against the elements, guarding them from rot and … do survivors forming sculptural swirls. They grow 6 pay it forward as little as an inch in diameter every SANDY HOOK, CONNECTICUT 100 years, but fortunately, these pines Four months after the Sandy Hook have centuries to spare. Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a tornado … are ukuleles tore through Oklahoma and caught 5 even hotter than the attention of four friends from the Newtown area. When John DiCostanzo, electric guitars 34 (in blue polo shirt), heard the news HONOLULU, HAWAII of the devastation, he and (from left) What’s one pound, around 130 years Peter Baressi, Bill Faucett, and Howard old, native to the United States, and Wood resolved to travel 1,500 miles so popular, it’s nearly doubled in sales to Moore with supplies. “We had an from 2010 to 2012? It’s the immense amount of love pour into ukulele, now enjoying its our town in December, and it contin- biggest comeback since ues to show up,” Baressi said to the Newtown Bee. “We needed to share Bali Hai. And why not? it.” On May 22, the men set off on their The Hawaiian-born drive with 13,000 pounds of goods. instrument is They weathered a tire blowout and cheap and easy broken brake line before reaching to master, and Oklahoma 40 hours later. RYAN; KATE FOR FOLDENAUER SARA SPREAD: PROP STYLIST: FIRST BALK; HAIR: JONATHAN AUBRI FOR MARIE BLOMQUIST STYLIST: WARDROBE PRIANO; MAKEUP: ALLISON BROOKE. TIMOTHY BY ARTISTS FOR MASON BIDEAWEE.ORG COURTESY CATS 74 | 07•2014 | rd.com ONLY IN AMERICA… … is a Bloody tackle the problem with 8 Mary a meal what he knew best: build- MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN ing with LEGOs. Shubham Nothing screams America worked with a LEGO Mind- more than excess. And noth- storms EV3, an advanced ing tastes more like brunch set that can be used to make than a Bloody Mary. Combine programmable toys like the two, and you get the coun- robots. After three weeks of try’s latest trend in libations. after-school tinkering, Shub- The Cove in Leland, Michigan, ham had developed Braigo, serves its concoction with a a printer that creates Braille regional delicacy, a smoked patterns by using a needle to chub. In Minneapolis, the Ice- punch small holes in paper. house’s Bloody Homer (as in Simp- The total cost of his machine: $350. son) features candied bacon and a Shubham put his plans online as bacon-bedecked donut. The version an open-source invention for other at Sobelman’s Pub & Grill in Milwau- innovators. Now he’s busy working kee is crowned with a Brussels sprout, on a top-secret project with LEGO. celery, onion, mushroom, cherry to- mato, lemon, pickle, shrimp, sausage, … do we leave cheese, olive, green onion, asparagus, 10 bananas at a grave and—the pièce de résistance—a bacon HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA cheeseburger slider. Next time you visit Huntsville, be sure to pack a bunch—of bananas, that is. … does a 12-year-old The city is home to the grave site of 9 build a Braille a special astronaut: squirrel monkey printer from LEGOs Miss Baker. In 1959, Miss Baker and SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA Able, a rhesus monkey, were the first … do bald eagles make public appearances 11 PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA After his parents received a flyer primates to safely return from space seeking donations for the visually (they experienced nine Unlike other diplomats, Thunder the bald eagle doesn’t rely on words to get impaired, preteen Shubham Baner- minutes of weightless- his point across—his glare is enough. The victim of an oil spill and electrocu- tion, the raptor makes more than 100 appearances a year across America as jee went online ness). Miss Baker lived at a representative of our national bird. Thunder’s injuries prevent his return to to research what Huntsville’s U.S. Space & the wild, so the 11-year-old lives at Conservation Ambassadors, a California it’s like to be Rocket Center until her nonprofit refuge that houses permanently impaired animals and advocates blind. He was death in 1984, and visi- for protecting their kind in the wild. “People care about animals, but it indignant to learn that Braille print- tors still leave hundreds can take a kick in the butt to get them to act,” says David Jackson (pictured ers cost at least $2,000. “Capitalizing of bananas annually on page 71), the organization’s CEO and one of the spokesbird’s favorite on disadvantaged people did not for this little handlers.
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