Farmer turns to growing grapes

Monday, June 3, 2002

OAKFORD, Ill. -- Mark Lounsberry, whose ancestors settled in Menard County before the Civil War, hopes his new venture, the Hill Prairie Vineyard and Winery, will help marry the present with the past.

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