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It takes style to call hogs and hubbies
First female champion hog caller crowned at the Illinois State Fair
It takes style to call hogs and hubbies
http://www.sj-r.com/news/x1246329071/It-takes-style-to-call-hogs-and-hubbies

Hogs called via cell phone at state fair
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/08/10/news/doc489fb1ce768eb378815659.txt

Meet the Illinois State Fair hog-calling champion
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1103226,hog081208.article

Iowa Public Television: Hog Calling [Windows Media Player]
http://www.iptv.org/video/detail.cfm/554/sf07_20070818_6_10

Calling the Hogs: Arkansas Alumni Association
http://arkalum.org/traditions/callingthehogs.php

The Wonderful Pig of Knowledge!
http://pigofknowledge.blogspot.com/

Over the past week, much of the world has been focused on the pomp and
circumstance surrounding the Summer Olympics in Beijing. However, in
downstate Illinois, amidst rich farm country, another type of champion was
crowned  a champion hog-caller.  There is something different about this
year's champion, she's Doris Probst the first female champion hog-caller.
Probst learned her craft while growing up in Effingham, Illinois on a hog
farm. The venue was the 2008 Illinois State Fair, and Probst put on a
performance that was part pure entertainment and part truly astonishing
mélange of vocalizations that mimicked both a piglet and a full-grown pig.
There are many state fair sponsored hog calling contests still to go in the
2008 season, and such stalwarts as Bob Wood (the 1999 World Championship Hog
Caller) and Littlefield, Texas's own Roxanne Ward have yet to enter the fray
this summer. Despite the fact that Probst was the first woman to win the
title at the Illinois State Fair, she remained humble, commenting, "If I had
known how good these people were going to be, I wouldn't have come up here."
[KMG]

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