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Tractor Pull Champion Larry Koester is an Unsung Hero

Tractor Pull Champion Larry Koester is an Unsung Hero

Larry Koester is a husband, a father, and a champion in the sport of high-octane tractor pulling. Engines growl with more than three times the maximum power allowed by NASCAR – and ‘pullers’ use every tool they have to direct extreme horsepower down the dirt track. Larry pulls his mini-modified tractor as well as, or…

Barbeque Master Keith Allen is an Unsung Hero

Barbeque Master Keith Allen is an Unsung Hero

Keith Allen is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina based barbecue master who has been cooking with hickory wood for over forty years. Keith is up every morning at 2 a.m and by 3 he has the fire going. When he isn’t splitting wood, pushing coals or turning meat, he’s making deserts from his grandmother’s recipes,…

Ironworker Chad Snow is an Unsung Hero

Ironworker Chad Snow is an Unsung Hero

For more than a century, the men of the Mohawk Tribe have walked the high steel in New York City, bolting together the city’s skyscrapers and bridges. The dangerous work is their birthright passed down from generation to generation. Chad Snow’s father was an ironworker and so was his father before him and his father…