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OUR PARKS (CONTINUED)• Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

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• Located in California’s Owens Valley, Manzanar National Historic Site preserves one of 10 camps at which Japanese American citizens and Japanese aliens were interned during World War II.

• Cumberland Falls, the largest waterfall east of the Rockies (except Niagara) is known as the “Niagara of the South.” Clear water pours over rocks in a cascade that is more than 60 feet (18 m) high and 125 feet (38 m) wide. The waterfall is the centerpiece of Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky.

• The largest park unit in the United States is the Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska, which covers 13.2 million acres, including 8.7 million acres of wilder-ness area.

• In Utah, there is a park that commemorates the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Golden Spike National Historic Site marks the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869.

• Did you know: The Kalaupapa National Historical Park in Hawaii was the site of a leprosy settlement from 1886-1969.

• The home of Clara Barton, (founder of the American Red Cross), in Glen Echo, Maryland, served as headquarters for the American Red Cross from 1897 to1904 and was established as a unit of the National Park Service in 1975.

• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which has been designated Eisenhower National Historic Site, is the only place President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower ever called home.

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OUR PARKS (CONTINUED)• The Mount Washington Observatory in Mount

Washington State Park (New Hampshire) recorded a wind speed of 231 mph (371.75 kph) during a storm in 1934. In the park there is a plaque that reads: “The Highest Wind Ever Observed by Man was Recorded in This Building.”

• The Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York commemorates the First Women’s Rights Convention held in 1848 and the early leaders of the women’s rights movement in the United States.

• Roberto Clemente State Park, located along the Harlem River in the Bronx, was named in honor of the great Pittsburgh Pirate Hall of Fame baseball player and humanitarian who died in a 1972 plane crash while transporting medical, food and clothing supplies to earthquake-stricken Nicaragua.

• The Statue of Liberty was reconstructed in America on Bedlow Island; the island is now called Liberty Island and is only accessible by ferry. Auguste Bartholdi, who built the statue, thought that the New York harbor was the perfect setting because it was, “where people get their first view of the New World.”

• Between October 4, 1927 and October 31, 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the colossal 60-foot (18 m) carvings of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore National Park to represent the first 150 years of American history.

• Humans have occupied the area encompassed by Joshua Tree National Park’s nearly 800,000 acres for at least 5,000 years. The first group known to inhabit the area was the Pinto Culture, followed by the Serrano, the Chemehuevi and the Cahuilla.

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As for the bouquets, brides are going for a simpler, sleeker look, with many choosing hand-tied or posy bouquets. Small, compact, tasteful bouquets with exquisite flowers and gorgeous accents are ideal. Flowers may be embellished with beads, crystals, faux jewels, feath-ers or pearls. These may be glued in-side petals, strung on wires over petals, threaded onto thin strands of glass within petals or left to dangle. Ribbon has also made a comeback, but instead of being used in bows, it may be wrapped around the flower stems.

For brides that choose not to wear a veil, flowers may be the answer. They may use flowers from their bouquet in their hair, attaching them with pins or secur-ing them to barrettes or a headband.

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When it comes to wedding flowers, brides have a number of choices. Roses remain popular, as do gerbera daisies and tulips. Tropical flowers are also hot.

One of the biggest changes in wedding floral design is color. Lighter, more muted shades are now being replaced with bright-er, bolder hues. Brides today are not afraid of mixing reds and yellows, oranges and purples, and greens and blues.

Along with stronger colors, many wedding floral designs feature herbs, fruits, vegeta-bles and other striking pieces. These help create interest and add dimension.

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Farm succession requiresmore than good intentions

Each year, thousands of American farm families wrestle with the taskof passing the farm to future generations. A lot is at stake in this delicatehandoff, including income and security for the senior generation, controland authority for the younger generation, fairness and equity for non-farm-ing family members, and, of course, dealing with the government’s “taxbite.”

Planning for the transfer of one’s farm from one generation to the nextcan be aided by following some very practical steps.

Start the conversation. If you’re the farm owner, sit down with yourspouse and children to tell them of your desire to pass the farm to the nextgeneration. Listen to their thoughts about farm operations and succession.Which child or children have an interest in operating the farm? Discussyour preliminary thoughts about releasing authority to them for farm op-erations.

Talk through possible time frames for the transfer to take place. Ifmore than one child wants to operate the farm, discuss your thoughts aboutthe farm supporting multiple families. Exchange ideas about a transitionthat treats everyone equitably.

You owe it to your loved ones to address this subject in advance of apotential crisis caused by death or disability. Don’t delay this conversa-tion.

Consider retirement, not just succession. While many farm familieshave a plan in place to pass the farm to the younger generation in the eventof the farm owner’s death, too few farmers have adequately planned for aretirement.

Financial services professionals can assist seniors in preparing for theirgolden years by helping farm families analyze potential sources of retire-ment income, eligibility for Social Security benefits, adequacy of life andhealth insurance coverages, and investment allocations, among others.

Beware of debt AND taxes. Giving the next generation of farm own-ers the ability to operate the farm without saddling them with excessivedebt is essential. It does little good to leave your loved ones with the farmonly to see them forced to sell it in whole or in parts to pay off existingdebt.

Perhaps no tool is more valuable in preserving the farm for succeedinggenerations than life insurance. Under current tax laws, life insurance deathbenefits are generally income tax free, and families can use proceeds to paytaxes or expenses at the time of the insured’s death. In addition, life insur-

ance can be a ready source of cash to equalize the distribution of the estate toadult children who have no interest in operating the farm.

In 2007, the amount exempt from federal estate tax upon transfer (to some-one other than a spouse) at death is $2 million. With proper planning, a couplecould transfer $4 million in 2007 without incurring federal estate taxes. If thetransfer is made while the farm owner is alive, the federal gift tax exemption is$1 million ($2 million for a couple). A gift of property by an individual tosomeone other than a spouse, either during lifetime or at death (in excess ofthe exemptions identified above) could result in either a federal gift tax or afederal estate tax liability. These taxes can equal or exceed 45 percent of theadditional amounts transferred.

For many farm owners, a combination of life insurance and trusts mayhelp establish equity among children, provide income for the owners and fa-cilitate the transfer of a farm property to the next generation.

Work with trusted advisors to build and execute your succession plan.In building a farm succession plan for your family, work with an experiencedteam of financial professionals. This team should include: an attorney, ca-pable of establishing proper wills, trusts and durable power of attorney; anaccountant, familiar with farm and tax issues; and a financial services profes-sional experienced in estate strategies. Together, this team can help you de-velop a farm succession plan that keeps the family farm in the family.

Passing the family farm to the next generation may not be easy, but itsurely is rewarding. Don’t delay in developing a farm succession plan to se-cure your and your family’s future.

Armin Hinkelman, ChFC, CLU, RHU, LUTCF, is a Financial Consultant with Thrivent Fi-nancial for Lutherans, a not-for-profit Fortune 500 financial services organization helping nearly 3million members achieve their financial goals.

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• It was British Prime Minister BenjaminDisraeli who made the following obser-vation: “My idea of an agreeable personis a person who agrees with me.”

• Hunters, take note: The largest deer thatever lived was the Irish elk, which becameextinct more than 7,000 years ago. Thoughit stood a remarkable 7 feet tall at theshoulders, the creature’s most amazingcharacteristic was its antlers, which couldstretch 12 feet from tip to tip and weighup to 90 pounds. Imagine that rack hang-ing on your living-room wall!

• If you are a parent, you probably won’tbe surprised to learn that among the un-der-18 crowd, strawberries are the favor-ite fruit, followed closely by grapes andbananas.

• Google Earth, the virtual geographic in-formation program, isn’t just a fun thingto fiddle with on your computer; it can bea law-enforcement tool, too. Just last year,police in Switzerland noticed a cornfieldthat looked a bit odd; it turns out that thefarmer was raising marijuana and had hid-den the two-acre plot within his cornfields.

• The koala bear, that cute and cuddly iconof Down Under, never drinks water. Thecritters get all the water they need fromthe food they eat.

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CHARLOTTE,N.C. — NASCARopened its Hall ofFame on May 11,giving stock-car rac-ing a shrine to rival

baseball’s in Cooperstown, N.Y., football’s in Can-ton, Ohio, and basketball’s in Springfield, Mass.

As former Charlotte Motor Speedway presidentH.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, noted, “This is where thepeach basket was put up in 1949, right out on LittleRock Road near the airport.”

Wheeler was referring to the site of NASCAR’sfirst major race, run on June 19, 1949, on a 3/4-miledirt track that existed through 1956. That track waslocated near the present site of Charlotte DouglasInternational Airport.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame occupies a promi-nent share of the downtown skyline. It bears some

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resemblance to the Country Music Hall of Fame andMuseum in Nashville. Above its massive walls, theHall takes an oval shape, and there’s a practical rea-son. Inside, that oval shape translates into somethingof a simulated short track — and also a banked rampto the second floor — with still, full-sized race carsplaced around it, frozen in fanciful race mode.

The main floor is 10,000 square feet. Exhibit spaceexceeds 40,000 square feet. The overall budget was$154.5 million. The exhibit budget alone was $31million.

The May 23 Induction Ceremony will officiallyenshrine NASCAR founder William H.G. (Big Bill)France; his successor and son, William C. (Bill Jr.)France; Richard Petty, stock-car racing’s most pro-lific winner; Dale Earnhardt, the only other driver towin seven championships; and Junior Johnson, whoearned enduring fame as driver, mechanic and owner.

NASCAR has been around since 1948, but only

five men get into the Hall of Fame each year. Induc-tions in succeeding years will be eagerly anticipatedwith legendary drivers like David Pearson, BobbyAllison, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Lee Pettyand Curtis Turner still waiting in the wings, so to speak.

Among the Hall’s features:—A theater screen 65 feet wide and 15 feet high,

along with a video wall containing 64 plasma-screentelevisions.

—Visitors will wear either video cards or wristbandswith computer chips, enabling holders to activate in-teractive parts of the museum like racing simulationsand trivia.

—Each Hall of Fame inductee will have a “spire”with a video, emblematic photo and quote about him.

• • •Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette

since 1993. He was named writer of the year by the National MotorsportsPress Association in 2008. His blog NASCAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reporting on racing, roots music andlife on the road. E-mail Monte at [email protected].

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