They brought the dog to a big barn of a place, an actual barn beside an abandoned farmhouse, at the back of the airport.

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Through a sidelight at the rear door he watched the flames race in the wind, flowing under his car and fanning out to light the corncrib, the smokehouse, and the big sagging barn, which went up in a howl of crackling lumber and dried-out hay.

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It is a proud history that runs from barn stomping to the great honky tonks to the big stage to the GRAMMYs.

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"You might have 50, 000 chickens in the barn, and no idea which one laid the big egg, " says Marcus Rust, CEO of Rose Acre Farms, in Seymour, Ind.

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