Grapes of Wrath

Bailey Leavitt comes from a family of carnies.

The Iowa State Fair awarded coveted slots to just nine new food vendors this year.

A teenage whiz kid invents a new toy for Milton Bradley.

For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.

Firefighter and paramedic Sam Gebler gets a glimpse of what lurks beneath the surface of a sunny California afternoon.

Law professor Rebecca Allensworth has been studying another realm of civic-minded individuals charged with helping society function: medical licensing boards.